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Patrick Blackett : sailor, scientist, and socialist / edited by Peter Hore ; with a foreword by Tam Dalyell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974.
- Blackett, P. M. S.
- Great Britain. Royal Navy.
- Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Science.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Operations research.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1 Boy Blackett / Patrick Blackett 1
- 2 The Selborne Scheme: The Education of the Boy / Evan Davies 15
- 3 One of Fisher's Revolutions: The Education of the Navy / Geoff Sloan 38
- 4 Blackett at Sea / Peter Hore 55
- 5 The Midshipman and the Secret Gadget / John Brooks 72
- 6 Blackett at Cambridge / Andrew Brown 97
- 7 Preparations for War / David Zimmerman 110
- 8 Blackett and the Black Arts / Jock Gardner 126
- 9 A Clash of Cultures: The Case for Large Convoys / Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones 138
- 10 The Case against Area Bombing / Paul Crook 167
- 11 The Father of Operational Research / Richard Ormerod 187
- 12 Blackett and Nuclear Strategy / Philip Towle 201
- 13 Blackett in India: Thinking Strategically about New Conflicts / Robert Anderson 217
- 14 A Physicist in the Corridors of Power / Mary Jo Nye 269
- 15 The Scientific Context of Blackett's Achievements / Bernard Lovell 294
- 16 The Reluctant Peer in Politics / Harold Wilson 305.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0714653179
- OCLC:
- 49799324
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