Title A bridge not attacked : chemical warfare civilian research during World War II / Harold Johnston.

Publication Info.	River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary	This book tells the novel true stories concerning highly talented civilian scientists in some unusual places and situations during World War II. The purpose of this book is to present an almost forgotten history of secret war research in universities. The focus is on the narrow subject of chemical warfare research and on a small number of individuals, but with in-depth study of these individuals and what they did. Mostly graduate students and young instructors, they were working under the direction of professors at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California (Berkeley). Action took place in California, Florida and the jungles of Panama. This history touches on the work of four senior Nobel Prize winners and eight junior, future Nobel Prize winners at Caltech and Berkeley.
Subject	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Chemical warfare -- United States.
	Chemical warfare -- Research -- United States.
	Chemists -- United States -- Biography.
	Chemists -- United States.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
	HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
	Chemical warfare. (OCoLC)fst00853231
	Chemical warfare -- Research. (OCoLC)fst00853240
	Chemists. (OCoLC)fst00853570
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1939 - 1945
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form:	Print version: Johnston, Harold, 1920- Bridge not attacked. River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2003 981238152X (DLC) 2005279049 (OCoLC)61179701
ISBN	9812565396 (electronic bk.)
	9789812565396 (electronic bk.)

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