Scientific American's John Horgan profiles John Archibald Wheeler, a
leading theoretical physicist of the twentieth century and former
Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences, writing:
In 1934, David Hilbert, by then a grand old man of German
mathematics, was dining with Bernhard Rust, the Nazi minister of
education. Rust asked, “How is mathematics at Göttingen, now that
it is free from the Jewish influence?” Hilbert replied,...
