Die Studie behandelt das Leben und Werk des herausragenden Natur- wie Gesellschaftswissenschaft-lers, Wissenschaftspolitikers und politischen Intellektuellen John Desmond Bernal (1901 . 1971). Nach dem Studium der Mathematik, Physik und Mineralogie in Cambridge wurden die...

J. D. Bernal's monumental work Science in History is the first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the first flint hand ax to the construction of the hydrogen bomb. This remarkable study illustrates the impetus...

I am very conscious of speaking to you as an outsider. All of you here are professional people involved in the handling of information. You cover the whole process—the collecting, the storing, the finding, and the handing out of information. I come in at both ends of the process, as a provider...

The International Conference on Scientific Information which will be held in November 1958 in Washington is the first large‐scale sequel to the Royal Society Conference on Scientific Information of 1948. In the ten intervening years there has been such a multiplication of scientific...