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What movement drove Bothe out of the Physical and Radiological Institute at the University of Heidelberg?
The democratic movement
The scientific revolution
The deutsche Physik movement
The nuclear non-proliferation movement
Answer
The deutsche Physik movement, which was spearheaded by Johannes Stark, argued that Theory of relativity and quantum mechanics were unscientific and that physics should be based on the ideas of German nationalism and racial purity. The movement was particularly opposed to the work of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, and both Bothe and Hahn were criticized by the movement.
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