By Harold Johnston
This quantity tells the unconventional actual tales referring to hugely gifted civilian scientists in a few strange areas and events in the course of international struggle II. the aim of the paintings is to offer a virtually forgotten background of mystery battle examine in universities. the point of interest is at the slim topic of chemical conflict examine and on a small variety of contributors, yet with in-depth research of those members and what they did. more often than not graduate scholars and younger teachers, they have been operating lower than the course of professors on the California Institute of know-how (Caltech) and the college of California (Berkeley). motion came about in California, Florida and the jungles of Panama. This heritage touches at the paintings of 4 senior Nobel Prize winners and 8 junior, destiny Nobel Prize winners at Caltech and Berkeley.
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