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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--Officers--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physicists.
- World War, 1939-1945--Science.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Operations research.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 334 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- chapter 1 Boy Blackett / Patrick Blackett
- chapter 2 The Selborne Scheme: The Education of the Boy / Evan Davies
- chapter 3 One of Fisher's Revolutions: The Education of the Navy / Geoff Sloan
- chapter 4 Blackett at Sea / Peter Hore
- chapter 5 The Midshipman and the Secret Gadget / John Brooks
- chapter 6 Blackett at Cambridge / Andrew Brown
- chapter 7 Preparations for War / David Zimmerman
- chapter 8 Blackett and the Black Arts / Jock Gardner
- chapter 9 A Clash of Cultures: The Case for Large Convoys / Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
- chapter 10 The Case against Area Bombing / Paul Crook
- chapter 11 The Father of Operational Research / Richard Ormerod
- chapter 12 Blackett and Nuclear Strategy / Philip Towle
- chapter 13 Blackett in India: Thinking Strategically about New Conflicts / Robert Anderson
- chapter 14 A Physicist in the Corridors of Power / Mary Jo Nye
- chapter 15 The Scientific Context of Blackett's Achievements / Bernard Lovell
- chapter 16 The Reluctant Peer in Politics / Harold Wilson.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-77435-8
- 0-7146-5317-9
- 0-203-50851-3
- 1-135-77436-6
- 9786610106639
- 6610106630
- 1-280-10663-8
- 9780203508510
- OCLC:
- 57587153
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