Blackett : : Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century / / Mary Jo Nye.
This is a lively and compact biography of P. M. S. Blackett, one of the most brilliant and controversial physicists of the twentieth century. Nobel laureate, leader of operational research during the Second World War, scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, memb...
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Year of Publication: | 2013 |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t ILLUSTRATIONS -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t Introduction: A Life of Controversy -- |t 1. The Shaping of a Scientific Politics: From the Royal Navy to the British Left, 1914–1945 -- |t 2. Laboratory Life and the Craft of Nuclear Physics, 1921–1947 -- |t 3. Corridors of Power: Operational Research and Atomic Weapons, 1936–1962 -- |t 4. Temptations of Theory, Strategies of Evidence: Investigating the Earth's Magnetism, 1947–1952 -- |t 5. “Reading Ourselves into the Subject”: Geophysics and the Revival of Continental Drift, 1951–1965 -- |t 6. Scientific Leadership: Recognition, Organization, Policy, 1945–1974 -- |t Conclusion: Style and Character in a Scientific Life -- |t NOTES -- |t INDEX |
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520 | |a This is a lively and compact biography of P. M. S. Blackett, one of the most brilliant and controversial physicists of the twentieth century. Nobel laureate, leader of operational research during the Second World War, scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, Blackett was also denounced as a Stalinist apologist for opposing American and British development of atomic weapons, subjected to FBI surveillance, and named as a fellow traveler on George Orwell's infamous list. His service as a British Royal Navy officer in the First World War prepared Blackett to take a scientific advisory role on military matters in the mid-1930s. An international leader in the experimental techniques of the cloud chamber, he was a pioneer in the application of magnetic evidence for the geophysical theory of continental drift. But his strong political stands made him a polarizing influence, and the decisions he made capture the complexity of living a prominent twentieth-century scientific life. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) | |
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650 | 0 | |a Nuclear physicists. | |
650 | 0 | |a Physik. | |
650 | 0 | |a Tweede Wereldoorlog. | |
650 | 4 | |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology. | |
650 | 4 | |a HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. | |
650 | 4 | |a HISTORY / General. | |
650 | 4 | |a Nuclear physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography. | |
650 | 4 | |a World War, 1939-1945 -- Science. | |
650 | 7 | |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military. |2 bisacsh | |
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