Blackett
Subtitle: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: October 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780674015487
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: Second World War; PHYSICS; Nuclear Physics; Contributions in nuclear physi; Biography; Science; Biography / Autobiography; Modern - 20th Century; History: World; Europe; Great Britain; History; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Baron Blackett,; Nuclear physicists; World War, 1939-1945; (Patrick Maynard Stuart),; 1897-1974; Blackett, P. M. S
Description: "This biography captures the many facets of P.M.S. Blackett, one of the most brilliant and controversial physicists of the twentieth century. Nobel laureate, leader of operational research during the Second World War, scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, Blackett was also denounced as a Stalinist apologist for opposing American and British development of atomic weapons, subjected to FBI surveillance, and named as a fellow traveler on George Orwell's infamous list."--BOOK JACKET.