Scientific Research In World War II

What scientists did in the war
Herausgeber: Hooijmaijers, Hans; Maas, Ad

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Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II. No scientist remained unaffected by the outbreak of WWII. As the book shows, there were basically two opposite ways in which the war encroached on the life of a scientific researcher. In some cases, the outbreak of the war led to engagement in research in support of a war-waging country; in the other extreme, it resulted in their marginalisation. The book, starting with the most marginalised scientist and ending with those fully engaged in the war-effort, covers the whole spectrum of enormously varying scientific fates. Distinctive features of the volume include: a focus on the experiences of 'ordinary' scientists, rather than on figureheads like Oppenheimer or Otto Hahn contributions from a range of renowned academics including Mark Walker, an authority in the field of science in World War II a detailed study of the Netherlands during the German Occupation This richly illustrated volume will be of major interest to researchers of the history of science, World War II, and Modern History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138995956
• ISBN-10: 1138995959
• Artikelnr.: 45024235

Autorenporträt

Ad Maas, Hans Hooijmaijers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ordinary Scientists in Extraordinary Circumstances Chapter 1.
The Mobilisation of Science and Science-Based Technology during the Second
World War: A Comparative History Chapter 2. To Work or Not to Work in War
Research?: The Case of the Italian Physicist G.P.S. Occhialini during WWII
Chapter 3. Scientific Research in the Second World War: The Case for
Bacinol, Dutch Penicillin Chapter 4. Preventing Theft: The Kamerlingh Onnes
Laboratory in Wartime Chapter 5. Electron Microscopy in Second World War
Delft Chapter 6. "Splendid Isolation"?: Aviation Medicine in World War II
Chapter 7. National Socialism, Human Genetics and Eugenics in the
Netherlands 1940-1945 Chapter 8. The Birth of a Modern Instrument and Its
Development during World War II: Electron Microscopy in Germany from the
1930s to 1945 Chapter 9. Aerodynamic Research at the Nationaal
Luchtvaartlaboratorium (NLL) in Amsterdam under German Occupation during
World War II Chapter 10. Masa Takeuchi and His Involvement in the Japanese
Nuclear Weapons Research Programme Chapter 11. The Cyclotron and the War:
Construction of the 60-inch Cyclotron in Japan Chapter 12. Forging a New
Discipline: Reflections on the Wartime Infrastructure for Research and
Development in Feedback Control in the US, UK, Germany and USSR Chapter 13.
British cryptanalysis: the breaking of 'Fish' traffic