Scientific research in World War II : what scientists did in the war / edited by Ad Maas and Hans Hooijmaijers.

"This book is the result of the Scientific Research in World War II conference ... organized by Museum Boerhaave ... on 25 and 26 January 2007"--P. [1].

"Distinctive features of the volume include: ... a detailed study of The Netherlands during the German Occupation"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Ordinary scientists in extraordinary circumstances / Ad Maas -- The mobilization of science and science-based technology during the Second World War : a comparative history / Mark Walker -- To work or not to work in war research? : the case of the Italian physicist G.P.S. Occhialini during World War II / Leonardo Gariboldi -- Scientific research in the Second World War : the case for Bacinol, Dutch penicillin / Marlene Burns -- Preventing theft : the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in wartime / Dirk van Delft -- Electron microscopy in Second World War Delft / Marian Fournier -- 'Splendid isolation'? : aviation medicine in World War II / Alexander von Lünen -- National Socialism, human genetics and eugenics in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 / Stephen Snelders -- The birth of a modern instrument and its development during World War II : electron microscopy in Germany from the 1930s to 1945 / Falk Müller -- Aerodynamic research at the Nationaal Luchtvaartlaboratorium (NLL) in Amsterdam under German occupation during World War II / Florian Schmaltz -- Masa Takeuchi and his involvement in the Japanese nuclear weapons research programme / Masakatsu Yamazaki -- The cyclotron and the war : construction of the 60-inch cyclotron in Japan / Keiko Nagase-Reimer -- Forging a new discipline : reflections on the wartime infrastructure for research and development in feedback control in the US, the UK, Germany and the USSR / Chris C. Bissell -- British cryptanalysis : the breaking of 'Fish' traffic / J.V. Field.