Patrick Blackett in India: Military consultant and scientific intervenor, 1947-72. Part two

Notes and Records of the Royal Society

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 345-360

  Anderson, Robert S ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0042763614     PISSN: 00359149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.1999.0087     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. R.S. Anderson, 'Patrtick Blackett in India: military consultant and scientific intervenor. Part one', Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 53, 253-273 (1999).
2. S.S. Bhatnagar to P.M.S. Blackett, 22 April 1951; P.M.S. Blackett to S.S. Bhatangar 27 April 1951; Royal Society Archive.
3. S.S. Bhatnagar to P.M.S. Blackett, 22 April 1951; P.M.S. Blackett to S.S. Bhatangar 27 April 1951; Royal Society Archive.
4. The relationship between Hill and Bhatnagar is one of the themes of my forthcoming book Nucleus and nation: scientists, international networks and power in India.
5. On the history of the solar power research at the NPL, see S. Visvanathan, Organising for science (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985).
6. The Statesman (Calcutta), 24 January 1963.
7. J.B.S. Haldane to P.M.S. Blackett, 25 January 1963, Royal Society Archives. On the relationships between Blackett, Bernal and Haldane, see G. Wersky, The visible college: a collective biography of British scientists and socialists of the 1930s (London, Free Association Books, 1988). See also B. Swan and F. Aprahamian (eds) J.D. Bernal: a life in science and politics. (Verso, London, 1999).
8. J.B.S. Haldane to P.M.S. Blackett, 25 January 1963, Royal Society Archives. On the relationships between Blackett, Bernal and Haldane, see G. Wersky, The visible college: a collective biography of British scientists and socialists of the 1930s (London, Free Association Books, 1988). See also B. Swan and F. Aprahamian (eds) J.D. Bernal: a life in science and politics. (Verso, London, 1999).
9. J.B.S. Haldane to P.M.S. Blackett, 25 January 1963, Royal Society Archives. On the relationships between Blackett, Bernal and Haldane, see G. Wersky, The visible college: a collective biography of British scientists and socialists of the 1930s (London, Free Association Books, 1988). See also B. Swan and F. Aprahamian (eds) J.D. Bernal: a life in science and politics. (Verso, London, 1999).
10. M.G.K. Menon et al., Report to the Executive Council, National Physical Laboratory, 9 April 1963, Royal Society Archives..
11. D. Raina and A. Jain, 'Big science and the university in India', in J. Krige and D. Pestre (eds) Science in the twentieth century (London, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997).
12. H. Zaheer to P.M.S. Blackett, 9 December 1964, Royal Society Archives.
13. C.G. Wynne, Report on Optical Designing, for the CSIR, June 1966, Royal Society Archives.
14. P.M.S. Blackett to Atma Ram, 4 December 1967, Royal Society Archives.
15. P.M.S. Blackett to Atma Ram, 4 December 1967, Royal Society Archives.
16. P.M.S. Blackett to A.J. Kidwai, 29 November 1967, Royal Society Archives.
17. P.M.S. Blackett, Report to the Leverhulme Trust, 12 May 1971, Royal Society Archives.
18. P.M.S. Blackett, 'Personal notes - Atma Ram', no date, probably April-May 1971, Royal Society Archives.
19. P.C. Mahalanobis to P.M.S. Blackett, 29 June 1971, Royal Society Archives.
20. V. Sarabhai to P.M.S. Blackett, 14 February 1958, Royal Society Archives.
21. P.M.S. Blackett to H.J. Bhabha, 13 February 1951, Royal Society Archives.
22. H.J. Bhabha to P.M.S. Blackett, 21 April 1955, Royal Society Archives. For the entire discussion of the six months before and years after August 1945 see G. Alperovitz, The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth (London, Harper Collins, 1995).
23. H.J. Bhabha to P.M.S. Blackett, 21 April 1955, Royal Society Archives. For the entire discussion of the six months before and years after August 1945 see G. Alperovitz, The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth (London, Harper Collins, 1995).
24. Government of India, Nuclear explosions and their effects (Delhi, The Publications Division, 1956).
25. M.J. Nye 'A physicist in the corridors of power: P.M.S. Blackett's opposition to atomic weapons following the war', presented to Conference on Patrick Blackett, Imperial College London, April 1998.
26. Anthony Lukas, 'India rules out secret atom test', New York Times 29 November (1965).
27. Personal communication, Sir Bernard Lovell, 24 April 1998.
28. A.J. Kidwai to P.M.S. Blackett, 21 November 1967, Royal Society Archives.