Patrick Blackett Sailor Scientist Socialist Naval Policy History 1st Edition by Peter Hore ISBN 0714653179 9780714653174

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ISBN 10: 0714653179 

ISBN 13: 9780714653174

Author: Peter Hore

This edited volume comprises a series of essays about Patrick Maynard Stewart Blackett, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, as well as a prominent figure in the Royal Navy and British politics.

Table of contents:

1. Acknowledgments

2. Introduction: A Life of Controversy

3. The Shaping of a Scientific Politics: From the Royal Navy to the British Left, 1914–1945

4. Laboratory Life and the Craft of Nuclear Physics, 1921–1947

5. Corridors of Power: Operational Research and Atomic Weapons, 1936–1962

6. Temptations of Theory, Strategies of Evidence: Investigating the Earth’s Magnetism, 1947–1952

7. “Reading Ourselves into the Subject”: Geophysics and the Revival of Continental Drift, 1951–1965

8. Scientific Leadership: Recognition, Organization, Policy, 1945–1974

9. Conclusion: Style and Character in a Scientific Life

10. Abbreviations

11. Notes

12. Index

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