Science, war, and imperialism : India in the Second World War / by Jagdish N. Sinha. by Sinha, Jagdish N.

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Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War. by Hollings, Christopher D.

Table of Contents: “…International Mathematics Shortly Before and After the Second World War: A Glimpse Ahead and Back Again -- Part 3 . …”
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The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, & emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy / Sharon Bertsch McG... by McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

Table of Contents: “…Enlightenment and the Anti-Bayesian reaction -- pt. 2. Second World War era -- pt. 3. The glorious revival -- pt. 4. …”
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Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus A Sixty Year Journey 1896 — 1956 / by Bernard Fernandez, Georges Ripka. by Fernandez, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Radioactivity, the First Puzzles -- A Nucleus at the Heart of The Atom -- Quantum Mechanics, the Unavoidable Path -- A Timid Infancy -- 1930-1940 : A Dazzling Development -- The Upheavals of the Second World War -- The Time of Maturity -- Where the Narrative Ends.…”
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Ludwig Prandtl A Life for Fluid Mechanics and Aeronautical Research / by Michael Eckert. by Eckert, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Prandtl Is Totally Uninterested in Politics ..." -- The Second World War -- The Final Years -- Prandtl's Legacy -- References and Further Reading -- Name and Subject Index.…”
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Holding Hands with Bacteria The Life and Work of Marjory Stephenson / by Soňa Štrbáňová. by Štrbáňová, Soňa

Table of Contents: “…Early Years -- Becoming Hopkins’ Associate -- Fruitful Years: What Alice Found in the Microbes -- Between the Medical Research Council and the Biochemistry Department -- The Rise of Nazism in Germany and the Second World War -- Post-war Activities: Recognition and Honours -- From Chemical Microbiology to General Microbiology -- Stephenson’s personality -- Conclusions: What is Left Behind.... -- Supplements.…”
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The dawn of fluid dynamics : a discipline between science and technology / Michael Eckert. by Eckert, Michael, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…ottingen, 1904-1914 -- Aviation and the rise of aerodynamics in the First World War -- The internationalization of fluid mechanics in the 1920s -- A "working program" for research on turbulence -- Aerodynamics comes of age -- New applications -- Prandtl, fluid dynamics and National Socialism -- New centers -- Fluid dynamics on the eve of the Second World War.…”
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Mt Stromlo Observatory : from bush observatory to the Nobel prize / Ragbir Bhathal, Ralph Sutherland and Harvey Butcher. by Bhathal, R. S., Sutherland, Ralph, Butcher, Harvey R.

Table of Contents: “…A beginning in the bush -- A bush observatory -- Caretaker -- Second World War : the observatory becomes an optical munitions factory -- The change master -- The astronomical godfather -- A life on the dome floor -- An astronomical entrepreneur -- An instrumentalist and the MACHO project -- Masters of the universe -- Bushfires and a new beginning -- Stromlo fellows and a Nobel Prize -- Brian Schmidt's Nobel Lecture 2011 : accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.…”
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Haphazard reality : half a century of science / H.B.G. Casimir ; with a new preface by Frans Saris. by Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909-2000

Table of Contents: “…Industry and Science After the Second World War; 10. The Science-Technology Spiral; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliographical Notes; Index.…”
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Jacques Hadamard, A Universal Mathematician. by Maz'ya, Vladimir

Table of Contents: “…Hadamard's Life; Prologue; The beginning; The turn of the century; Mature years; After the great war; Maî tre; In the 30s; The second world war; After eighty; Part II. Hadamard's Mathematics; Analytic function theory; Number theory; Analytical mechanics and geometry; Calculus of variations and functionals; Miscellaneous topics; Elasticity and hydrodynamics; Partial differential equations; Hadamard's last works; Epilogue; Principal dates in Hadamard's life.…”
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Robert Le Rossignol Engineer of the Haber Process / by Deri Sheppard. by Sheppard, Deri

Table of Contents: “…The ‘Big Fix’ Synthetic ammonia at Karlsruhe -- Part Two: The industrialisation of ‘fixation’ and the Great War -- The Auergesellschaft, Berlin Tungsten filaments and a pawn in a power game -- Of Koppel and the Kaiser Progress at the BASF, 'fixation' revealed, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin -- From Karlsruhe to Oppau Industrialisation of the Haber-Le Rossignol process -- Berlin, 1911-1914 Of patents, publications and the prelude to the Great War -- Haber and the 'Chemists’ War'. 1914-1918 Fixation' and gas warfare -- Robert’s war. 1914-1918 Internment at Ruhleben, release to the ‘Auer’ and finally home -- Part Three: The GEC Laboratories, the second world war and retirement -- The Post-War Years, 1919-1930 Of airships, unfinished business from Germany and the GEC Laboratories -- The Post-War Years, 1930-1939 Of CATs, Cambridge and the BBC -- The Second World War and immediate post-war years. 1939-1949 Wembley at war, ‘St Helier’ and retirement -- Penn, Buckinghamshire. 1949-1976 Retirement years, ‘coming out’ and remarkable benevolence -- February 2012 A personal pilgrimage to Penn to meet with some who still remember the Le Rossignols -- End Notes and References -- Appendix A: Heat capacity and enthalpy -- Appendix B: The Third Law in action; thermodynamics of the n-butane to iso-butane isomerism -- Appendix C: The Nernst approximation formula -- Appendix D: The Haber(-Le Rossignol) equations 1907-1914 -- Appendix E: Thermionic valves -- Appendix F: Robert Le Rossignol’s patents. 1909-1956.…”
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Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions How Tales about Love, Sex, Races, Gods and Progress Affect Our Lives and Earth's Splendor / by Rui Diogo. by Diogo, Rui

Table of Contents: “…How teleological stories are linked to racism, Freud's just-so-stories, eugenics, and the second world war -- 5. How teleological narratives and the notion of 'chain of being' are related to colonialism -- 6. …”
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The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator / Timothy C. Winegard. by Winegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles), 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Toxic twins: The mosquito and her diseases -- Survival of the fittest: Fever demons, footballs, and sickle cell safeties -- General Anopheles: From Athens to Alexander -- Mosquito legions: Fhe rise and fall of the Roman Empire -- Unrepentant mosquitoes: A crisis of faiths and the Crusades -- Mosquito hordes: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire -- The Columbian exchange: Mosquitoes and the global village -- Accidental conquerors: African slavery and the mosquito's annexation of the Americas -- The seasoning: Mosquito landscapes, mythology, and the seeds of America -- Rogues in a nation: The mosquito and the creation of Greater Britain -- The crucible of disease: Colonial wars and a new world order -- Unalienable bites: The American Revolution -- Mercenary mosquitoes: Wars of liberation and the making of the Americas -- Mosquitoes of Manifest Destiny: Cotton, slavery, Mexico, and the American South -- Sinister angels of our nature: The American Civil War -- Unmasking the mosquito: Disease and imperialism -- This is Ann: She's dying to meet you : the Second World War, Dr. Seuss, and DDT -- Silent springs and superbugs: The mosquito renaissance -- The modern mosquito and her diseases: At the gates of extinction -- Conclusion.…”

Global transformations in the life sciences, 1945-1980 / edited by Patrick Manning & Mat Savelli.

Table of Contents: “…Reinhardt -- "Dermatoglyphics" and race after the Second World War : the view from East Asia / Daniel Asen -- Global epidemiology, local message : Sino-American collaboration on cancer research, 1969-1990 / Lijing Jiang -- From Sovietization to global Soviet engagement? …”
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The Rise of Radio Astronomy in the Netherlands The People and the Politics / by Astrid Elbers. by Elbers, Astrid

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Leon Rosenfeld : Physics, Philosophy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. by Jacobsen, Anja Skaar

Table of Contents: “…Surviving the War in Utrecht; The Second World War; Uhlenbeck's Successor; Life in Holland under Nazi Occupation; Heisenberg's Visit; Hiding; Chapter 5. …”
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From artefacts to atoms : the BIPM and the search for ultimate measurement standards / Terry Quinn. by Quinn, T. J. (Terry J.)

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: The origins of the Metre Convention 1851 to 1869 -- Chapter 2: The creation of the International Metre Commission 1869 -- Chapter 3: The International Metre Commission, meetings of 1872/73 -- Chapter 4: The casting of 1874 and the first steps in the fabrication of the new metric standards -- Chapter 5: The Diplomatic Conference of the Metre 1875 -- Chapter 6: The creation of the BIPM and the beginning of the construction of the new metric prototypes; problems with the French Section -- Chapter 7: 1879 to 1889, the first decade of scientific work at the International Bureau Progress with metres and instruments -- Chapter 8: New Member States and the first General Conference on Weights and Measures, 1889 -- Chapter 9: The development of the scientific work at the BIPM, the General Conferences of 1895 and 1901 -- Chapter 10: The creation of the Grands Laboratoires Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) National Physical Laboratory (NPL) -- Chapter 11: The story of invar and the extension of the role of the International Bureau at the 6th General Conference 1921 -- Chapter 12: The 7th and 8th General Conferences 1927 and 1933, practical metrology and the Bureau during the Second World War -- Chapter 13: The SI, absolute electrical units, the International Committee and the creation of the ionizing radiation section -- Chapter 14: The adoption of the SI, revising the Metre Convention, new definitions of the metre and second at the 11th General Conference 1960 -- Chapter 15: The mole, the speed of light and more about the Metre Convention -- Chapter 16: New science at the BIPM and the Recognition of National measurement Standards -- Chapter 17: The redefinition of the kilogram and the move towards the New SI -- Epilogue: The new SI and the future role of the BIPM -- Appendix English text of the Metre Convention.…”
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Iris Runge A Life at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Science, and Industry / by Renate Tobies. by Tobies, Renate

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Mathematics across the Iron Curtain : a history of the algebraic theory of semigroups / Christopher Hollings. by Hollings, Christopher, 1982-

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Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany by Abraham A. Fraenkel ; edited by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield. by Fraenkel, Abraham Adolf, 1891-1965

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