Schonland : scientist and soldier / Brian Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Brian, 1945-

Contributor:

Schonland, Basil, Sir, 1896-1972.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schonland, Basil, Sir, 1896-1972.

Schonland, Basil.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Publishing, [2001]

Summary:

Schonland: Scientist and Soldier is a biography of Sir Basil Schonland FRS (1896-1972). Schonland was a major contributor to twentieth-century British and Commonwealth science, both in peace and war. This is not just a scientific biography, but a biography that tells much of a highly placed scientist and administrator, of the increasing engagement between science and the military, and of changing military-diplomatic relationships between Britain and South Africa. The author has drawn on a profusion of primary and secondary source material, from both South African and British archives, to produce a fine biography that is very readable and interesting.

Contents:

1 Early Years 1

2 Rhodes to Cambridge 11

3 For King and Country 26

4 In Command 39

5 From the Cavendish to Cape Town 53

6 And Then There Was Lightning 71

7 Enter Cockcroft 90

8 The Wings Begin to Spread 110

9 Two Chairs and the Bpi 132

10 Bernard Price's Institute 151

11 The SSS at War 170

12 'Could I be of Service?' 204

13 Soldiers and Civilians 229

14 Montgomery's Scientist 264

15 When Smuts Called 302

16 Nationalists and Internationalists 338

17 'Come over to Macedonia and Help Us' 364

18 Cockcroft's Man 380

19 Scientia Et Labore 395

20 'Cometh the Hour' 431

21 Harwell 449

22 Fission But No Fusion 466

23 Zeta and Windscale 492

24 Captain and Not First Officer 522

25 'For the Future Lies with You' 549.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 580-620) and index.

ISBN:

0750305010

OCLC:

48431676