Science and the Pacific War:science and survival in the Pacific, 1939-1945

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Group Author: MacLeod Roy M
Published: Kluwer,
Publisher Address: Dordrecht Boston
Publication Dates: c2000.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 207
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Carrier Form: xiii, 320 p.: ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0792358511 (alk. paper)
Index Number: E195
CLC: E195.2-05
K152-05
Call Number: E195.2-05/S416
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p.303-310) and index.
Combat science: OSRD's postscript in the Pacific / Roy Macleod -- The Smithsonian goes to war: the increase and diffusion of scientific knowledge in the Pacific / Pamela M. Henson -- Malaria in the Southwest Pacific in World War II / Mary Ellen Condon-Rall -- The machine in the Pacific: the diverse legacy of technology / Donald T. Fitzgerald -- The role of botanists during World War II in the Pacific theatre / Richard A. Howard -- Australian universities at war: the mobilisation of universities in the battle of the Pacific / Michelle Freeman -- Australia's mustard gas guinea pigs / Bridget G