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One of the brightest Canadian scientists of his generation, Omond
McKillop Solandt was a physiologist by training, an engineer by
disposition, and a manager by necessity. A protege of insulin's
co-discoverer, Charles Best, Solandt worked as a scientist for the
British government during the Second World War, including as a
pioneer of operational research and a manager of scientific
establishments. Ending the war as a colonel, he served on the
British Mission to Japan, where he studied the effects of the
atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, before returning to Canada
to become chairman of the newly created Defence Research Board.
There he spearheaded Canada's attempt to create a new and
innovative government science infrastructure that served the needs
of the Canadian military at the dawn of the nuclear age and worked
alongside allies in Britain and the United States. In Maestro of
Science, Jason S. Ridler draws on interviews with Solandt and his
colleagues and declassified records from Canada and the United
Kingdom to paint a vivid picture of the influence and achievements
of a Canadian leader in Cold War military research.
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