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Great Scientists Wage the Great War (Hardcover)
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Great Scientists Wage the Great War (Hardcover)
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Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World
War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed
the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging, which
enabled British tanks to break through in late 1917 and 1918. His
father worked with the French to develop high frequency
echolocation; if the war had gone on longer sonar would have curbed
the U-boats. Ernest Starling led a group that discovered the cause
of wound shock and saved shocked men with artificial plasma. He
utilized what was known about metabolism to ration food fairly in
Britain while improving the poor s nutrition. Germans starved. Otto
Hahn worked on poisons for gas warfare and devised and tested
filters to trap the poisons. He also became an expert on tactics
for breaking through enemy lines with gas. Chaim Weizmann and other
chemists produced molecules essential for making high explosives;
German chemists enabled their side to keep in the war. Antiaircraft
defense was developed by the physiologist A. V. Hill who led more
than 100 scientists and mathematicians, who learned how to aim
supersonic shells to explode near fast-moving targets. Now these
threads are brought together for general readers, telling how some
of the foremost scientists of all time used their remarkable
talents for significant war research. The information comes from
their memoirs, letters, reports in the archives, and from coworkers
recollections. Four of these brilliant and diverting men were Nobel
laureates and one became the president of Israel. The work of two
outstanding women is described in the narrative."
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