Dahlem for Android

11 things about Dahlem

1. Accompany Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner as they discover nuclear fission and listen to the story of their unusual friendship that survived two world wars and a regime of terror.

2. Ten stations tell stories about the former research institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (now the Max Planck Society) and about the people who made pioneering discoveries there.

3. Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of science and go on a journey in time through “Germany’s Oxford”, now the Dahlem Campus in Berlin.

4. You will travel through time and space, meet the past in the present, and gain a lively impression of outstanding achievements of modern research.

5. Meet chemists Fritz Haber and Clara Immerwahr, who lived for their research and whose marriage ended in tragedy.

6. Get to know imperial court architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne, and find out why the research institutes he designed look like mansions.

7. Discover which role the physicist Werner Heisenberg played in the bomb’s development during the Nazi period, and why it was never made.

8. Only rarely over the course of history have so many Nobel Prize winners lived and worked in a world created for them.

9. Get to know Albert Einstein as a brilliant scientist, good friend and empathic physics teacher for the kids of Berlin.

10. On your tour you will experience the special atmosphere that characterises Dahlem and its campus to this day.

11. Find out more about the “German nuclear bomb”.