ISBN: 052122392X
Godina izdanja: 1978
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Margaret Gowing - Reflections on Atomic Energy History: The Rede Lecture 1978
Cambridge University Press, 1978
24 str.
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stanje: vrlo dobro, potpis na predlistu.

Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott, CBE, FBA, FRS, was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain`s nuclear weapons programs.

Through her work in the Cabinet Office from 1945 to 1959, she knew personally many of the people involved. As historian archivist at the UK Atomic Energy Authority from 1959 to 1966 she had access to the official papers and files of the British nuclear weapons programs. She was the first occupant of a chair in the history of science at the University of Oxford, which she held from 1972 until her retirement in 1986. As co-founder with physicist Nicholas Kurti of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre in Oxford, she helped ensure the preservation of contemporary scientific manuscripts.

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