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Author:

Ridler, Jason Sean, 1975- author.

Title:

Maestro of science : Omond McKillop Solandt and government science in war and hostile peace, 1939-1956 / Jason Sean Ridler.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xv, 350 pages, 14 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Solandt, Omond M.--(Omond McKillop),--1909-
Scientists--Canada--Biography.
Military research--Canada.
Science and state--Canada.
Scientists in government--Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index.

Contents:

Idyllic childhood : the early Years of Omond McKillop Solandt, 1909-1927 -- Prot©♭g©♭ : Omond Solandt and Charles Best in Toronto and Leningrad, 1927-1935 -- Commencement : Solandt, Cambridge and the Ontario Polio Epidemic, 1936-1939 -- First taste of war : Solandt and the South West London Blood Depot, 1940 -- Tank doctor : Omond Solandt, Director of the Physiological Research Laboratory, Lulworth, 1940-1942 -- Managing science : Omond Solandt and the British Army Operational Research Group, 1943-1945 -- Atomic battlefield : Solandt and the British Mission to Japan, November 1945 -- The only man for the job : Omond Solandt and the origins of the Defence Research Board, 1943-1946 -- A doctor among soldiers : Solandt, Canada's first Scientific Chief of Staff, 1946-1956 -- A decade of leadership : Omond Solandt, chairman of the Defence Research Board, 1946-1956 -- Rockets, germs, and UFOS : Solandt, the establishments, and public perceptions of the DRB, 1946-1956 -- Canada's defence research diplomat : Solandt and the DRB's international connections, 1946-1956 -- Atomic realist : Omond Solandt and nuclear weapons, 1945-1955.

ISBN:

1442647477 (bound)
9781442647473 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907661792

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)