Stephen Budiansky - Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
From code-breaking to nuclear weapons, scientists played key roles in the Second World War. Budiansky’s history focuses on the Allies’ development of operational research to combat the threat of German submarines. The star of this story is Patrick Blackett, a future Nobel laureate who led the fight against U-boats with mathematics and probability theory.
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