Memoirs of a Boffin

A personal account of life in the 20th Century.

Note: Edited excerpts of the first four chapters of this book are included in Pioneers of Radar by Colin Latham and Anne Stubbs (Sutton Publishing, 1999) together with the reminiscences of a number of other boffins who were in TRE during World War II.

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Contents

  1. Between the Wars (1917-1939)
  2. Secret Assignment (1939-1940)
  3. Boffins Fly South (1940-1942)
  4. Boffins at War (1942-1944)
  5. Foreign Mission (1944-1945)
  6. Academic Interlude (1946-1951)
  7. The McGill Fence (1951-1955)
  8. Multinational (1955-1965)
  9. The Ottawa Scene (1965-1971)
  10. Changing Times (1971-1975)
  11. International
  12. Science in the Third World
  13. The Club of Rome
  14. IIASA, CACOR and FIT
  15. New Horizons
  16. Energy and Environment
  17. Epilogue

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