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...[[Virginia City, Nevada]], where his father was a merchant. His family was Jewish by birth but non-religious, and Michelson himself was a lifelong agnostic.< ...ons and a daughter.<ref>James, I. (2009). Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists p. 101. {{ISBN|978-1-906165-22-2|date=April 2 ...

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Planck was 74. He witnessed many Jewish friends and colleagues expelled from their positions and humiliated, and hu ...rofessors in order to issue a public proclamation against the treatment of Jewish professors, but Planck replied, "If you are able to gather today 30 such ge ...