Scientific research in World War II : what scientists did in the war /

Main Author: Maas, Ad, 1970-
Other Authors: Hooijmaijers, Hans.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge studies in modern history
Subjects:
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245 1 |a Scientific research in World War II :  |b what scientists did in the war /  |c edited by Ad Maas and Hans Hooijmaijers. 
260 1 |a London :  |b Routledge,  |c 2009. 
300 1 |a xii, 240 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Routledge studies in modern history 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 1 |a Introduction : Ordinary scientists in extraordinary circumstances / Ad Maas -- The mobilization of science and science-based technology during the Second World War : a comparative history / Mark Walker -- To work or not to work in war research? : the case of the Italian physicist G.P.S. Occhialini during World War II / Leonardo Gariboldi -- Scientific research in the Second World War : the case for Bacinol, Dutch penicillin / Marlene Burns -- Preventing theft : the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in wartime / Dirk van Delft -- Electron microscopy in Second World War Delft / Marian Fournier -- 'Splendid isolation'? : aviation medicine in World War II / Alexander von Lünen -- National Socialism, human genetics and eugenics in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 / Stephen Snelders -- The birth of a modern instrument and its development during World War II : electron microscopy in Germany from the 1930s to 1945 / Falk Müller -- Aerodynamic research at the Nationaal Luchtvaartlaboratorium (NLL) in Amsterdam under German occupation during World War II / Florian Schmaltz -- Masa Takeuchi and his involvement in the Japanese nuclear weapons research programme / Masakatsu Yamazaki -- The cyclotron and the war : construction of the 60-inch cyclotron in Japan / Keiko Nagase-Reimer -- 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 / Chris C. Bissell -- British cryptanalysis : the breaking of 'Fish' traffic / J.V. Field. 
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650 1 |a World War, 1939-1945  |x Science 
650 1 |a Research  |x History 
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