Book ID: CBB000951706

Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (2009)

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Maas, Ad (Editor)
Hooijmaijers, Hans (Editor)


Routledge
Publication date: 2009
Language: English


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xii + 240 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Reiding, Jurrie (2010) Review of "Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 243). unapi

Review Barker, Peter (2009) Review of "Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 324). unapi

Review MacLeod, Roy (2010) Review of "Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War". Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis (p. 103). unapi

Review Zimmerman, David (2011) Review of "Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 784). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Walker, Mark (2009) Introduction: Ordinary Scientists in Extraordinary Circumstances. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Gariboldi, Leonardo (2009) To Work or Not to Work in War Research? The Case of the Italian Physicist G. P. S. Occhialini during World War II. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 31). unapi

Chapter Burns, Marlene (2009) Scientific Research in the Second World War: The Case for Bacinol, Dutch Penicillin. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 44). unapi

Chapter Delft, Dirk van (2009) Preventing Theft: The Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Wartime. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 62). unapi

Chapter Fournier, Marian (2009) Electron Microscopy in Second World War Delft. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 77). unapi

Chapter Lünen, Alexander Von (2009) “Splendid Isolation”? Aviation Medicine in World War II. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 96). unapi

Chapter Snelders, Stephen (2009) National Socialism, Human Genetics and Eugenics in the Netherlands, 1940--1945. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 109). unapi

Chapter Müller, Falk (2009) The Birth of a Modern Instrument and Its Development during World War II: Electron Microscopy in Germany from the 1930s to 1945. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 121). unapi

Chapter Schmaltz, Florian (2009) Aerodynamic Research at the Nationaal Luchtvaartlaboratorium (NLL) in Amsterdam under German Occupation during World War II. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 147). unapi

Chapter Yamazaki, Masakatsu (2009) Masa Takeuchi and His Involvement in the Japanese Nuclear Weapons Research Programme. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 183). unapi

Chapter Nagase-Reimer, Keiko (2009) The Cyclotron and the War: Construction of the 60-Inch Cyclotron in Japan. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 191). unapi

Chapter Bissell, Chris C. (2009) Forging a New Discipline: Reflections on the Wartime Infrastructure for Research and Development in Feedback Control in the US, the UK, Germany and the USSR. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 202). unapi

Chapter Field, J. V. (2009) British Cryptanalysis: The Breaking of “Fish” Traffic. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 213). unapi

Chapter Maas, Ad (2009) The Mobilisation of Science and Science-Based Technology during the Second World War: A Comparative History. In: Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War (p. 13). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Avery, Donald H.
Ball, Philip
Bocking, Stephen A.
Harvey, A. D.
Nishiyama, Takashi
Raley, David
Journals
Air Power History
Business and Economic History On-Line
Environment and History
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History of Science
Publishers
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Johns Hopkins University Press
Reaktion Books
Routledge
Springer
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
World War II
Technology and war; technology and the military
Science and war; science and the military
Military technology
Cold War
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
People
Banting, Frederick Grant
Debye, Peter Joseph William
Heisenberg, Werner
Hitler, Adolf
Planck, Max
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Japan
Great Britain
Canada
Italy
Institutions
Luftwaffe (Germany)
American Physical Society
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Kriegsmarine (Germany)
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