1st Edition
Scientific Research In World War II What scientists did in the war
Introduction: Ordinary Scientists in Extraordinary Circumstances Ad Maas Chapter 1. The Mobilisation of Science and Science-Based Technology during the Second World War: A Comparative History Mark Walker Chapter 2. To Work or Not to Work in War Research?: The Case of the Italian Physicist G.P.S. Occhialini during WWII Leonardo Gariboldi Chapter 3. Scientific Research in the Second World War: The Case for Bacinol, Dutch Penicillin Marlene Burns Chapter 4: Preventing Theft: The Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Wartime Dirk van Delft Chapter 5: Electron Microscopy in Second World War Delft Marian Fournier Chapter 6: "Splendid Isolation"?: Aviation Medicine in World War II Alexander von Lünen Chapter 7: National Socialism, Human Genetics and Eugenics in the Netherlands 1940-1945 Stephen Snelders Chapter 8: The Birth of a Modern Instrument and Its Development during World War II: Electron Microscopy in Germany from the 1930s to 1945 Falk Müller Chapter 9: Aerodynamic Research at the Nationaal Luchtvaartlaboratorium (NLL) in Amsterdam under German Occupation during World War II Florian Schmaltz Chapter 10: Masa Takeuchi and His Involvement in the Japanese Nuclear Weapons Research Programme Masakatsu Yamazaki Chapter 11: The Cyclotron and the War: Construction of the 60-inch Cyclotron in Japan Keiko Nagase-Reimer 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 C. C. Bissell
Chapter 13: British cryptanalysis: the breaking of 'Fish' traffic
J. V. Field
Biography
Ad Maas, Hans Hooijmaijers
"Each case study is very interesting; together, the studies shed considerable light on how scientists fare when forced to conduct research under wartime conditions. Summing Up: Recommended. All collections." - J. W. Dauben, CHOICE (November 2009)
