J.D. Bernal: A Life in Science and Politics
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Book Description
J. D. Bernal had a varied and fascinating life: he was an eminent crystallographer, an eloquent and prescient writer on the social implications of science, an early foe of pseudo-scientific racism, an original Marxist thinker and an indefatigable campaigner for peace and civil rights. As a leading Communist intellectual, Bernal was to be drawn into many of the central dramas of the twentieth century. While he was fted by the Soviet establishment and a recipient of the Lenin Prize, he was also a critic of the voluntarist notions of Stalin's agronomist, Trofim Lysenko. During the Second World War he was summoned by Winston Churchill to advise on methods to be used to land allied forces in Europe. In this symposium the 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.
About the Author
Brenda Swann and Francis Aprahamian worked with J. D. Bernal at Birkbeck College, University of London, on the research for several of J.D. Bernal's most important works, including The Social Function of Science, the three volume Science in History and A Prospect of Peace.
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