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Schonland: Scientist and Soldier: From lightning on the veld to nuclear power at Harwell: the life of Field Marshal Montgomery's scientific adviser

Schonland: Scientist and Soldier: From lightning on the veld to nuclear power at Harwell: the life of Field Marshal Montgomery's scientific adviser

by Brian Austin (Author)

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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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 639
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 13 Jul 2001
ISBN 10: 0750305010
ISBN 13: 9780750305013

Media Reviews
Austin develops the multi-faceted tale of his achievements in vivid detail. . . this historical biography is a fine tribute to a legendary and inspiring figure in South African Science. It may also serve to inform the reader of different aspects of a country, long under its own thundercloud, and eschewed, even in scientific circles, like the lepers of old - yet, as Thomas Hardy wrote of Egdon Heath, 'perfectly accordant with man's nature, but like man, slighted and enduring.' John D Hey in Nature, April 2002 Valuable to anyone researching the early days of atomic research in Britain. C G Wood, formerly of Eastern Maine Technical College in CHOICE . . . the Book is thorough in telling us about Schonland and his work - and about the background to it in challenging circumstances in both Britain and South Africa. Sebastian Pease in Physics World Austin's book offers a broad and detailed panorama of Basil Schonland's numerous occupations - scientist, inventor, experimenter, soldier, educator, researcher, administrator. IEEE Austin develops the multi-faceted tale of his achievements in vivid detail. . . The text is well referenced and sources include records of interviews with the Schonland family, and former colleagues and students, who themselves played important parts in the story. The book also provides unique insight into the Cavendish at the zenith of the 'old' (Bohr-Sommerfield) quantum theory. . . this historical biography is a fine tribute to a legendary and inspiring figure in South African science. NATURE .. the book is thorough in telling us about Schonland and his work Physics World develops the multi-faceted tale of his achievements in vivid detail. . . thishistorical biography is a fine tribute to a legendary and inspiring figure in South African Science. It may also serve to inform the reader of different aspects of a country, long under its own thundercloud, and eschewed, even in scientific circles, like the lepers of old - yet, as Thomas Hardy wrote of Egdon Heath, 'perfectly accordant with man's nature, but like man, slighted and enduring.' John D Hey in Nature, April 2002 Valuable to anyone researching the early days of atomic research in Britain. C G Wood, formerly of Eastern Maine Technical College in CHOICE . . . the Book is thorough in telling us about Schonland and his work - and about the background to it in challenging circumstances in both Britain and South Africa. Sebastian Pease in Physics World Austin's book offers a broad and detailed panorama of Basil Schonland's numerous occupations - scientist, inventor, experimenter, soldier, educator, researcher, administrator. IEEE Austin develops the multi-faceted tale of his achievements in vivid detail. . . The text is well referenced and sources include records of interviews with the Schonland family, and former colleagues and students, who themselves played important parts in the story. The book also provides unique insight into the Cavendish at the zenith of the 'old' (Bohr-Sommerfield) quantum theory. . . this historical biography is a fine tribute to a legendary and inspiring figure in South African science. NATURE .. the book is thorough in telling us about Schonland and his work Physics World