Serious Minds e-bog
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The Timeshailed Richard Burdon Haldane as one of the most powerful intellects British statesmanship had ever seen. His brother John, a great physiologist, invented the first gas masks used in World War One. Their sister Elizabeth was among the first women to become a senior public servant. Their mother Mary, friend and advisor to top politicians and churchmen, nurtured these exceptional minds....
E-bog
253,01 DKK
Forlag
Hurst Publishers
Udgivet
6 oktober 2022
Længde
424 sider
Genrer
Biography: general
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781787389748
The Timeshailed Richard Burdon Haldane as one of the most powerful intellects British statesmanship had ever seen. His brother John, a great physiologist, invented the first gas masks used in World War One. Their sister Elizabeth was among the first women to become a senior public servant. Their mother Mary, friend and advisor to top politicians and churchmen, nurtured these exceptional minds.Marys grandchildren swapped her traditional roots for radical socialism, but continued the brilliant family legacy. Naomi Mitchison was a doyenne of Scottish literature; one Nobel prizewinner called her brother, the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, the cleverest man I ever knew. Like the Darwins and Keyneses, this clan of thinkers lived in rapidly changing times, and helped to remake the world around them.Drawing on extensive family interviews and previously unseen private papers,Serious Mindsdetails scandal, tragedy and achievement within a dynasty that shaped modern Britainfrom the welfare state, education system and military, to our understanding of energy, the human body, and the origins of life itself.