Scientific research in World War II : what scientists did in the war /
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London :
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2009.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in modern history
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Table of Contents:
- 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.