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Author_Brian Austin
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Basil Schonland
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Blackett’s Circus
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British South Africa scientific relations
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Cockcroft
Commonwealth science policy
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Defence Research Policy Committee
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Fundamental Research
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Lightning Discharge
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Rhodes University College
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South African High Commissioner
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Thermonuclear Fusion
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Van Der Bijl
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Wilson Cloud Chamber
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750305013
- Weight: 1065g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Schonland: Scientist and Soldier is a biography of Sir Basil Schonland FRS (1896-1972). Schonland was a major contributor to twentieth-century British and Commonwealth science, both in peace and war. This is not just a scientific biography, but a biography that tells much of a highly placed scientist and administrator, of the increasing engagement between science and the military, and of changing military-diplomatic relationships between Britain and South Africa. The author has drawn on a profusion of primary and secondary source material, from both South African and British archives, to produce a fine biography that is very readable and interesting.
