Blackett : Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nye, Mary Jo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Edición:Reprint 2014
Temas:
Kernfysica.
Nuclear physicists.
Physik.
Tweede Wereldoorlog.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
HISTORY / General.
Nuclear physicists > Great Britain > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Science.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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