Blackett : physics, war and politics in the twentieth century / Mary Jo Nye.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard university press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 255 p., [6] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: 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 (1945-1947). Conclusion: Style and character in a scientific life. Abbreviations. Notes. Index
