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J.D. Bernal - A Life in Science and Politics (Paperback)
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J.D. Bernal - A Life in Science and Politics (Paperback)
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An eminent molecular physicist and path-breaking crystallographer,
an eloquent and prescient writer on the social implications of
science, an early foe of pseudo-scientific racism and an
indefatigable campaigner for peace and civil rights: as a scientist
and a Communist intellectual, J.D. Bernal was caught up in many of
the dramas of the twentieth century. As Eric Hobsbawm describes
here, Bernal played a major role in the dynamic 'red science'
movement of the 1930s, whose ideas on links between science and
society are only now being accorded their full significance.
Bernal's The Social Function of Science remains a classic analysis
of the way in which wider social relations may determine the
boundaries of both scientific understanding and practice. Impressed
by Bernal's relentless questioning of received ideas, Mountbatten
recruited him to the brilliant scientific team of his 'Department
of Wild Talents' during World War Two, to help in planning the
Normandy landings. After the war, Bernal strove to combine running
the Department of Physics at Birkbeck College, London, with
travelling and campaigning through six continents against the
nuclear threat of the Cold War. In a field notorious for its
mysoginism, Bernal's laboratories at Birkbeck were a haven for many
of the leading women scientists of the day, among them Rosalind
Franklin and the Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. And, as
James Watson has acknowledged, Bernal's X-ray photographs of
molecular structures formed a vital piece of evidence on the path
leading to the discovery of DNA. In this wide-ranging collection of
essays, different facets of Bernal's life and work are recounted
and assessed by Eric Hobsbawm, Hilary and Steven Rose, Ivor
Montagu, Ritchie Calder, Francis Aprahamian, Brenda Swann, Roy
Johnston, Chris Freeman and Peter Mason, Chris Whittaker, Roy
Johnston, Ann Synge and Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
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