Physicist, Activist (18-Nov-1897 — 13-Jul-1974)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Peter Hore (editor). Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist, and Socialist. London: Frank Cass Publishers. 2003. 288pp. Essays about Blackett.

Bernard Lovell. P. M. S. Blackett: A Biographical Memoir. London: The Royal Society. 1976. 115pp.

Mary Jo Nye. Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. 2004. 255pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.74)

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.77)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.160)

8. A Biographical Dictionary of World War II (p.12)

9. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.465)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.56)

11. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (p.74)

12. The Biographical Dictionary of World War II (p.43)

13. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.55)

14. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.63)

15. A Dictionary of 20th Century World Biography (Oxford) (p.64)

16. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.135)

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