Word: lindemann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story shows, Snow said, how the politics" of the scientific bureaucracy can run counter to the "open of Parliament and public opinion. Lindemann was then Churchill's ally in the anti-Government ranks agitating for defense preparation. Ironically, Churchill succeeded in becoming Air at that time, Lindemann would be headed Tizard's committee, and the radar project would have stopped. if the radar stations had not been Britain would have lost its battle, Snow declared...
...quarrel between the two men on, for after Churchill became Minister, Lindemann was made his eminence" in science, and Tizard out of a job. "There was to be no authority for him in that war." was sent on a mission to the United States, and noted in his diary, was a method of getting a bother- person...
...even out of power, Tizard was to with Lindemann once again before war ended. "This row, the second, climactic row," was over Lindemann's decision to push strategic bomb- Lindemann, now Lord Cherwell, in the Cabinet, sent out a paper gave impressive estimates, of the strategic bombing of low class housing would have...
...paper was opposed by Tizard and other English scientists, on scientific grounds, Tizard and P. M. S. Blackett, another physicist, Lindemann's estimates of the effectiveness of strategic bombing five or six times too high, "Everyone knew that if Tizard and Blackett were right, the thing was not worth doing," know noted. But Lindemann was in power, and his policy was put into effect...
After the war's end, the strategic bombing survey reported that Lindemann's estimates had been ten times too high. And Tizard was able to say, "The actual effort in manpower and resources that was expended in bombing Germany was greater than the value in manpower of the damage caused...