Ran across a bio on the Internet; claimed him as a hero. First, he was a man a iron character: "Otto Neugebauer was a professor at the University of Göttingen when, in 1934, he refused to sign an oath of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He was forced to emigrate to Denmark... Four years later the publisher, Springer-Verlag, asked for written assurances that no Jews would act as reviewers. Neugebauer resigned, along with most of the editorial board, and he destroyed his files. Soon thereafter Neugebauer moved to [Brown University]." Second, he was a scholar's scholar. Check the "What links here for this article to see of other articles that use his writings as a key reference."the most original and productive scholar of the history of the exact sciences, perhaps of the history of science, of our age. "National Academy of Sciences.
