Editing Walther Nernst (section)

=== Rejection of antisemitism ===
In 1933, Nernst learned that a colleague, with whom he had hoped to collaborate, had been dismissed from the department because he was a Jew. Nernst immediately taxied to see Haber to request a position in his Institute, which was not controlled by the government, only to learn that Haber was moving to England. Soon, Nernst was in trouble for declining to fill out a government form on his racial origins. He retired from his professorship but was sacked from the board of the [[Kaiser Wilhelm Society|Kaiser Wilhelm Institute]]. He lived quietly in the country; in 1937 he traveled to the [[University of Oxford]] to receive an honorary degree, also visiting his eldest daughter, her husband, and his three grandchildren.