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" Sir Edward Appleton "
by Ronald Clark.
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BL
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735703
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b555544
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by Ronald Clark.
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Sir Edward Appleton\ by Ronald Clark.
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1st ed
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Oxford; New York: Pergamon Press, 1971
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xiii, 240 pages : plates ; 21 cm
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008016093X
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: 9780080160931
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| Contents
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1892-1919: The road to Cavendish --;1920-1924: Post-war Cambridge --;1924-1925: Discovering the ionosphere --;1925-1932: "The youngest professor in Britain" --;1932-1936: Norway and the Halley Stewart --;1936-1938: The birth of defence science --;1939-1945: The War: running the DSIR --;1939-1945: The War: science and the services --;1946-1949: The post-war pause --;1949-1959: Principal and Vice-Chancellor --;1949-1959: The elder statesman --;1960-1965: The final years.
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Sir Edward Appleton, pioneer of ionospheric research, was one of the most influential scientists in an era which saw radio and television become commonplace features of everyday life. As Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research throughout the Second World War, he exemplified the new breed of scientific administrator produced by the impact of science on Government. And as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh he later held a key post during the post-war decades of educational expansion and change. He was also, and perhaps above all else, a very human Yorkshireman.
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Appleton, Edward Victor, -- Sir, -- 1892-1965
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Appleton, Edward Victor, -- Sir, -- 1892-1965.
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Appleton, Edward, -- Sir.
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QC16.A65B976 1971
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Ronald Clark
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