TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldsmith,Maurice
TI  - Sage: a life of J.D. Bernal 
SN  - 009139550X :
AV  - QC 16.B457 G64 1980
U1  - 530/.092/4B 19
PY  - 1980///
CY  - London
PB  - Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd.
KW  - Bernal, J. D.
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -