Scientific Research In World War II (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scientific Research in World War II seeks to explore how scientists managed to cope with the particular circumstances created by the war. The book focuses on both war-waging countries such as the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and the United States, and those under occupation, such as the Netherlands and France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135784577
• Artikelnr.: 38449104

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