"Complete and comprehensive, this text for advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering features exceptional clarity and minimum of mathematic notation. The expert and up-to-date treatment covers lightning phenomena and terminology, lightning photography, lightning spectro…
Sir Basil Schonland was a major contributor to 20th century British and Commonwealth science. As well as detailing his life, this biography depicts the increasing engagement between science and the military, and of changing military/diplomatic relationships between Britain and S…
"Basil Schonland the physicist unravelled the mysteries of lightning. Schonland the soldier served as scientific advisor to two Generals, became Chancellor of his alma mater, and Superintendent of the Army Operational Research Group. Schonland the administrator was President of …