Blackett : Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century / Mary Jo Nye.
Nye, Mary Jo, author.
2013
QC16.B59
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Title Blackett : Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century / Mary Jo Nye.
Author Nye, Mary Jo, author.
Edition Reprint 2014
ISBN 9780674335752
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674335752
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (255 p.) : 11 halftones, 1 line illustration
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674335752 doi
Call Number QC16.B59
Dewey Decimal Classification 539.7/092
Summary 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.
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HUP e-dition: World History eBook Package
HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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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
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