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BL
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632706
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Scientific research in World War II : : what scientists did in the war /\ edited by Ad Maas and Hans Hooijmaijers
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, c2009
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| Series Statement
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Routledge studies in modern history ;; 7
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xii, 240 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780710313409 (hbk.)
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: 0710313403 (hbk.)
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9780203883181 (ebk.)
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0203883187 (ebk.)
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| Notes
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"This book is the result of the Scientific Research in World War II conference ... organized by Museum Boerhaave ... on 25 and 26 January 2007"--P. [1]
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"Distinctive features of the volume include: ... a detailed study of The Netherlands during the German Occupation"--P. [i]
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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Scientists-- History-- 20th century, Congresses
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World War, 1939-1945-- Science, Congresses
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Scientists-- Netherlands-- History-- 20th century, Congresses
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World War, 1939-1945-- Science-- Netherlands, Congresses
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Research-- History, Congresses
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Science-- history
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History, 20th Century
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Research-- history
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World War II
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| Dewey Classification
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509/.044
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| LC Classification
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Q141.H195 2009
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2009 I-138
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Q 125S4158 2009
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| Added Entry
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Maas, Ad,1970-
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Hooijmaijers, Hans
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Museum Boerhaave
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| Parallel Title
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What scientists did in the war
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