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Sir Charles Goodeve
Royal Society Biographical Memoir
BY F. D. R
ICHARDSON
, F.R.S.
CONTENTS
Early Years -- Manitoba
Growing up in Canada — solving an explosive mystery...
AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
work with Fred Donnan
RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Absorption spectra
Photochemistry
Oxides of chlorine
Oxides of sulphur
Colloid chemistry
Vision — Visual Purple (rhodopsin)
THE WAR—H.M.S.
Vernon
Magnetic Mine Countermeasures
The Double L sweep
Wiping
THE WAR—D.M.W.D.
The Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapon Development (called here "The Department of....")
Creating an Admiralty Department
The Oerlikon gun
Protecting Shipping
The Hedgehog
Defeating the U-Boat
THE WAR—DEPUTY CONTROLLER (RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT)
THE BRITISH IRON AND STEEL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Founding a discipline
OTHER INTERESTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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