The Class of 38. Exile and Excellence

A film by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, directed by Frederick Baker and based on an idea by Anton Zeilinger

Idee von Anton Zeilinger, Regie von Frederick Baker

The Class of 38. Exile and Excellence
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Eminent scientists and scholars who were persecuted by the Nazis following the “annexation” of Austria in 1938 and were forced to leave the country shed light on these traumatic experiences at a young age and give an insight into how forced migration and displacement have shaped their research and live in academia.

Lotte Bailyn
Eugene Braunwald
Hanna Engelberg-Kulka
Gerald Holton
Eric Kandel
Martin Karplus
Herbert C. Kelman
Ruth Klüger
Walter Kohn
George Mandler
Walter Mischel
Walter Munk
Gustav F. Papanek
Marjorie G. Perloff
Peter Pulzer
Egon Schwarz