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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 p.) :; 11 halftones, 1 line illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: A Life of Controversy
- 1. The Shaping of a Scientific Politics: From the Royal Navy to the British Left, 1914–1945
- 2. Laboratory Life and the Craft of Nuclear Physics, 1921–1947
- 3. Corridors of Power: Operational Research and Atomic Weapons, 1936–1962
- 4. Temptations of Theory, Strategies of Evidence: Investigating the Earth's Magnetism, 1947–1952
- 5. “Reading Ourselves into the Subject”: Geophysics and the Revival of Continental Drift, 1951–1965
- 6. Scientific Leadership: Recognition, Organization, Policy, 1945–1974
- Conclusion: Style and Character in a Scientific Life
- NOTES
- INDEX