Scientific Research In World War Ii

Author : Ad Maas,Hans Hooijmaijers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135784577

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Scientific Research In World War II by Ad Maas,Hans Hooijmaijers Pdf

This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II. No scientist remained unaffected by the outbreak of WWII. As the book shows, there were basically two opposite ways in which the war encroached on the life of a scientific researcher. In some cases, the outbreak of the war led to engagement in research in support of a war-waging country; in the other extreme, it resulted in their marginalisation. The book, starting with the most marginalised scientist and ending with those fully engaged in the war-effort, covers the whole spectrum of enormously varying scientific fates. Distinctive features of the volume include: a focus on the experiences of ‘ordinary’ scientists, rather than on figureheads like Oppenheimer or Otto Hahn contributions from a range of renowned academics including Mark Walker, an authority in the field of science in World War II a detailed study of the Netherlands during the German Occupation This richly illustrated volume will be of major interest to researchers of the history of science, World War II, and Modern History.

Author : G. Hartcup,B. Lovell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230596177

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The Effect of Science on the Second World War by G. Hartcup,B. Lovell Pdf

The latest advances in science were fully exploited in the Second World War. They included radar, sonar, improved radio, methods of reducing disease, primitive computers, the new science of operational research and, finally, the atomic bomb, necessarily developed like all wartime technology in a remarkably short time. Such progress would have been impossible without the cooperation of Allied scientists with the military. The Axis powers' failure to recognise this was a major factor in their defeat.

Author : Bruce L. R. Smith
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D00091528Q

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American Science Policy Since World War II by Bruce L. R. Smith Pdf

In American Science Policy Since World War II, author Bruce L.R. Smith makes sense of the break between science and government and identifies the patterns of postwar science affairs.

Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015009943286

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World in the Balance by Gerhard L. Weinberg Pdf

The purpose of Weinberg's text is to suggest a way in which the dramatic events of World War II may be seen. Weinberg argues that the war must be seen as a whole, and that the presentation of it in discrete segments covering the European and Pacific portions separately distorts reality and obscures important aspects of the war on both sides of the world. In addition, any understanding of the great struggle requires a mental self-liberation from the certain knowledge of its outcome. In desperate struggles millions fought and died, hopeful or fearful--or both--but without awareness of the end.

Author : Leslie Earl Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Ballistics
ISBN : UOM:39015017575898

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German Research in World War II by Leslie Earl Simon Pdf

Author : Walter E. Grunden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060866350

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Secret Weapons and World War II by Walter E. Grunden Pdf

While previous writers have focused primarily on strategic, military, and intelligence factors, Walter Grunden underscores the dramatic scientific and technological disparities that left Japan vunerable and ultimately led to its defeat in World War II.

Author : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015008975248

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Science, the Endless Frontier by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush Pdf

This influential report described science as "a largely unexplored hinterland" that would provide the "essential key" to the economic prosperity of the post World War II years.

Author : Lincoln R. Thiesmeyer,John Ely Burchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:1123521242

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Combat Scientists by Lincoln R. Thiesmeyer,John Ely Burchard Pdf

Author : Naomi Oreskes,John Krige
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262526531

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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War by Naomi Oreskes,John Krige Pdf

Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science. The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions. These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race but also research in agriculture, biomedicine, computer science, ecology, meteorology, and other fields. This volume examines science and technology in the context of the Cold War, considering whether the new institutions and institutional arrangements that emerged globally constrained technoscientific inquiry or offered greater opportunities for it. The contributors find that whatever the particular science, and whatever the political system in which that science was operating, the knowledge that was produced bore some relation to the goals of the nation-state. These goals varied from nation to nation; weapons research was emphasized in the United States and the Soviet Union, for example, but in France and China scientific independence and self-reliance dominated. The contributors also consider to what extent the changes to science and technology practices in this era were produced by the specific politics, anxieties, and aspirations of the Cold War. Contributors Elena Aronova, Erik M. Conway, Angela N. H. Creager, David Kaiser, John Krige, Naomi Oreskes, George Reisch, Sigrid Schmalzer, Sonja D. Schmid, Matthew Shindell, Asif A. Siddiqi, Zuoyue Wang, Benjamin Wilson

Author : H. A. Feiveson
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480854802

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Scientists Against Time by H. A. Feiveson Pdf

In early 1942, the fate of the Allies appeared dire. Germany had conquered most of Western Europe, and its armies were deep into Russia. Japan had overrun Manchuria, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies, had conquered large swathes of China, and had destroyed much of the US battle fleet at Pearl Harbor. But the tide of World War II turned dramatically in favor of the Allies, and in this, Allied scientists played a critical role. The chapters covered in this book include an Overview summary of the entire war, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic against the German U-boats, the battle for command of the air, the Allied breaking of the German Enigma cipher, D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe, and the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. Harold Feiveson is a deep student of history, a masterful story teller and one of the pioneers in the global cooperative effort to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. This book provides a new, integrated overview of the remarkable technical achievements by the U.S. and British scientists who helped turn the tide of World War II. Although the war seemed endless to the participants, the number of world-shaping developments that occurred during the six years after the worlds industrialized countries committed themselves to total war is both remarkable and terrifying. The final breakthrough, nuclear weapons, led to a post-war nuclear-arms race whose dangerous legacy of destructive potential we are still struggling with today. -Frank von Hippel, Professor of Public andInternational Affairs emeritus, Princeton University An authoritative introduction to what Winston Churchill called the wizard war. Feivesons examination of the crucial role played by science and technology in World War II will appeal to both specialists and military history buffs. -Colonel Paul L Miles, U.S. Army, (Retired),former lecturer in history, Princeton University.

Author : Charles M. Vest
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520934047

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The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web by Charles M. Vest Pdf

Forty years after Clark Kerr coined the term multiversity, the American research university has continued to evolve into a complex force for social and economic good. This volume provides a unique opportunity to explore the current state of the research university system. Charles M. Vest, one of the leading advocates for autonomy for American higher education, offers a multifaceted view of the university at the beginning of a new century. With a complex mission and funding structure, the university finds its international openness challenged by new security concerns and its ability to contribute to worldwide opportunity through sharing and collaboration dramatically expanded by the Internet. In particular, Vest addresses the need to nurture broad access to our universities and stay true to the fundamental mission of creating opportunity.

Author : Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021010447

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No Day Long Enough by Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies Pdf

Presents a collection of personal accounts and anecdotes about the role of Canadian scientists in World War II, grouped into the following sections: the National Research Council's scientific contributions to the war effort; radar research and development; weapons and ammunition; medical research; chemical and biological research; scientific applications to naval problems; research on air force problems; operational research; cold weather operations; the Canadian nuclear project; and men who organized great scientific undertakings.

Author : Douglas M. O'Reagan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421428888

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Taking Nazi Technology by Douglas M. O'Reagan Pdf

Intriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming "wonder-weapons" that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize "intellectual reparations" from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigators invaded Germany's factories and research institutions, seizing or copying all kinds of documents, from patent applications to factory production data to science journals. They questioned, hired, and sometimes even kidnapped hundreds of scientists, engineers, and other technical personnel. They studied technologies from aeronautics to audiotapes, toy making to machine tools, chemicals to carpentry equipment. They took over academic libraries, jealously competed over chemists, and schemed to deny the fruits of German invention to any other land—including that of other Allied nations. Drawing on declassified records, O'Reagan looks at which techniques worked for these very different nations, as well as which failed—and why. Most importantly, he shows why securing this technology, how the Allies did it, and when still matters today. He also argues that these programs did far more than spread German industrial science: they forced businessmen and policymakers around the world to rethink how science and technology fit into diplomacy, business, and society itself.

Author : Allison L. Palmadessa
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1536195014

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World War II by Allison L. Palmadessa Pdf

"This edited collection exhibits research that considers economic, educational, technological, and strategic planning that contributed to nations' involvement in and the lasting impact of engagement in World War II. Written by historians and social scientists from around the world, each chapter offers an insight into the experiences and implications of those involved in the war - as leaders, civilians, politicians - and the continued strains resulting from diplomatic relationships and the casualties on and off the battlefield. The Second World War devastated the world - not equally in all areas or nations, but it altered the course of human history. These works contribute to the ability to make sense of this brutal war and in doing so, offer readers an opportunity to learn about some lesser-understood implications and results of the Second World War"--

Author : Ad Maas,Hans Hooijmaijers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135784584

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Scientific Research In World War II by Ad Maas,Hans Hooijmaijers Pdf

Scientific Research in World War II seeks to explore how scientists managed to cope with the particular circumstances created by the war. The book focuses on both war-waging countries such as the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and the United States, and those under occupation, such as the Netherlands and France.