Refugee Academics
Refugee Academics at the University of Toronto
Erich E.F. Baer (1901-1975)
Chemistry
Richard D. Brauer (1901-1977)
Mathematics
Peter H. Brieger (1898-1983)
History
Hans Eichner (1921-2009)
University Professor
German
Theodore Eschmann (1898-1968)
Medieval Studies
Philosophy
Herman Otto Fischer (1888-1960)
Chemistry
Chemistry
German
Physics
Hans Heilbronn (1908-1975)
Mathematics
Political Economy
Applied Mathematics
Physics
Medieval History
Banting and Best Medical Research Department
Political Economy
Comparative Law
Pharmacology
Peter Scherk (1910-1985)
Mathematics
Robert Schnitzer
Chemotherapy
Connaught Laboratories
Mladen Vranic (1930-2019 )
Physiology/Diabetes Research
Alexander Weinstein (1897-1979)
Mathematics
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Council for Assisting Refugee Academics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_Assisting_Refugee_Academics
Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning
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References
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Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper. ‘Canada and the Refugee Intellectual.’ In Jarrell C. Jackman and Carla M. Borden, eds, The Muses Flee Hitler: Cultural Transfer and Adaptation. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact. Princeton University Press, 2009
Stokes, Lawrence D. ‘Canada and an Academic Refugee from Nazi Germany: The Case of Gerhard Hertzberg.’ Canadian Historical Review 57 (1976)
Stortz, Paul. ‘”Rescue Our Family from A Living Death”: Refugee Professors and the Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning at the University of Toronto, 1936-1946.’ Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, New Series, 14, Halifax (2003): 231-261.
Stortz, Paul. "Refugee Professors and the University of Toronto during the Second World War." InConflicts, Communities, and Conflict: Histories of Canadian universities and war, ed. Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Zimmerman, David. ‘’Narrow-Minded People’: Canadian Universities and Academic Refugee Crises, 1933-1941.’ Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 88, No 2, (June 2007).
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/canadian_historical_review/v088/88.2zimmerman.pdf
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https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/jcha/1900-v1-n1-jcha849/010326ar.pdf