The Class of 35. Exile and Excellence

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

director Frederick Baker, from an idea by Anton Zeilinger

Book cover: The Class of 35. Exile and Excellence

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 Kluger Walter Kohn George Mandler Walter Mischel Walter Munk Gustav F. Papanek Marjorie G. Perloff Peter Pulzer Egon Schwarz

  • From an idea by Anton Zeilinger
  • Director Frederick Baker