{"product_id":"j-d-bernal-a-life-in-science-and-politics-paperback","title":"J.D. Bernal: A Life in Science and Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Swann\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrancis Aprahamian\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEric Hobsbawm\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn eminent molecular physicist and path-breaking crystallographer, an eloquent and prescient writer on the social implications of science, an early foe of pseudo-scientific racism and an indefatigable campaigner for peace and civil rights: as a scientist and a Communist intellectual, J.D. Bernal was caught up in many of the dramas of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Eric Hobsbawm describes here, Bernal played a major role in the dynamic 'red science' movement of the 1930s, whose ideas on links between science and society are only now being accorded their full significance. Bernal's \u003ci\u003eThe Social Function of Science\u003c\/i\u003e remains a classic analysis of the way in which wider social relations may determine the boundaries of both scientific understanding and practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImpressed by Bernal's relentless questioning of received ideas, Mountbatten recruited him to the brilliant scientific team of his 'Department of Wild Talents' during World War Two, to help in planning the Normandy landings. After the war, Bernal strove to combine running the Department of Physics at Birkbeck College, London, with travelling and campaigning through six continents against the nuclear threat of the Cold War. In a field notorious for its mysoginism, Bernal's laboratories at Birkbeck were a haven for many of the leading women scientists of the day, among them Rosalind Franklin and the Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. And, as James Watson has acknowledged, Bernal's X-ray photographs of molecular structures formed a vital piece of evidence on the path leading to the discovery of DNA. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this wide-ranging collection of essays, different facets of Bernal's life and work are recounted and assessed by Eric Hobsbawm, Hilary and Steven Rose, Ivor Montagu, Ritchie Calder, Francis Aprahamian, Brenda Swann, Roy Johnston, Chris Freeman and Peter Mason\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, \u003cb\u003eEric Hobsbawm \u003c\/b\u003ewas the author of more than twenty books of history, including \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Extremes.\u003c\/i\u003e He died in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452637868339,"sku":"9781786637598","price":47.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/a0dGL3NvTTg0OExleU4wREhMbUdwQT09.webp?v=1759114708","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/j-d-bernal-a-life-in-science-and-politics-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}