Sage : a life of J.D. Bernal / Maurice Goldsmith.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd. 1980.Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 009139550X :
- 530/.092/4 B 19
- QC 16.B457 G64 1980
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | QC 16.B457 G64 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML20050032 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.
1. Beginnings -- 2. Development -- 3. Future perfect -- 4. Soviet challenge -- 5. Commitment decade -- 6. Blast and counterblast -- 7. Days of fulfillment -- 8. Science Internationale -- 9. Science in policy -- 10. Pursuit of the possible -- 11. Sordid affairs -- 12. Science in history -- 13. Speculation and holism -- 14. Endings.
"The figure [J. D. Bernal] that Maurice Goldsmith, who knew him well, has depicted in this [...] biography, emerges [...] as one of the most trenchant intelligences of this century [...]. Although primarily a crystallographer, he produced and provoked ideas over almost the entire range of scientific enquiry. But posterity, perhaps, will recognise his major achievements as lying in his life-long devotion to the promotion of an understanding of the social function of science, and in his major contribution to the Allied war effort." -- from the dust jacket.
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