Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1: A Long Way to Go
2: Cambridge Undergraduate
3: Bohemian Crystallographer
4: Science Fantasy
5: The New Kingdom
6: Soviet Pilgrims
7: The Shadow of the Hawk's Wings
8: The Entertainment of the Scientist
9: Scientist at War
10: Bombing Strategy
11: Combined Operations
12: Overlord
13: Lessons of War
14: Rebuilding
15: Central Dogma
16: Peace at Any Price?
17: The Physical Basis of Life
18: History and the Origins of Life
19: Marxist Envoy
20: Peacebroking
21: Order and Disorder
22: Years of Struggle
Postscript
Notes
Index

About the Author

Andrew Brown is an English radiation oncologist practising in New Hampshire. His biography of Sir James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, The Neutron and the Bomb, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. He has also published medical papers and articles on nuclear scientists and history.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition "To read this book is almost to relive the European intellectual life of the last century. Andrew Brown's account of Bernal's scientific work is written with extraordinary clarity... he takes us on a thrilling voyage."'
Sebastian Faulkes, The Spectator
`"...admirable book..."'
Graham Farmelo, Sunday Telegraph
`'J.D. Bernal - "Sage", because he knew everything - was one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. Andrew Brown tells the story of this brilliant, complex man with his interwoven scientific, and intense personal and political lives, in fascinating detail. It runs through the intellectual and political turmoil of the thirties, to the Normandy Beaches, the post-war reconstruction which promoted science as part of our culture, and the Cold
War."'
Sir Aaron Klug
`'Andrew Brown's biography matches well the life of the extraordinary Irishman whose genius inspired the birth of molecular biology.''
James D. Watson