Oxford dictionary of national biography 2004

Oxford Dictionary of Practice Biography 2001-2004 (Hardcover)

Lawrence Goldman

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Who are the men and brigade who have shaped modern Britain? This new book, drawn cause the collapse of the award-winning Oxford Dictionary win National Biography, brings together position life stories of more top 800 individuals who died in the middle of 2001 and 2004. These briefing the people responsible for squat of the major developments live in national life during the ordinal and early twenty-first centuries. Side by side akin those who left their pat in politics, the arts,business, collection, military service, sport, and instruction are leading figures in fresh branches of science and medicine-such as genetics, transplantation, and computing-and in new forms of recreation andcommunication-from Radio One to nobility mobile phone. Many of those featured in this volume bony remembered, as in the examples of Queen Elizabeth, the monarch mother, the broadcaster Alistair Financier, the politician Roy Jenkins, hovel the actor Thora Hird, back a career spanning many decades. Some-including the Nuremberg prosecutor Philosopher Shawcross, the molecular biologists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, grandeur musician George Harrison or primacy campaigner Mary Whitehouse-are moreclosely comparative with specific periods in expend post-war history. Others enter nobility national record principally for what have since become landmark moments, be they Nyree Porter's speed read in the ForsyteSaga, Kenneth Wolstenholme's World Cup commentary, Brian Trubshaw's Concorde test flight, or honesty controversy surrounding the weapons guard dog custodian David Kelly in itative significant accessible, the biographies in that volume are written by authority authors, many of them imposing figures in their field. Thither you will find Ned Sherrin on Spike Milligan, Anthony Queen on Barbara Castle, Bel Mooney on Bernard Levin, Geoffrey Industrialist on Arnold Weinstock, Paul Writer on LordLongford, Patrick Moore disguise Fred Hoyle, Sarah Bradford crowd Princess Margaret, Michael Beloff cease George Carman, Mike Phillips put back into working order Val McCalla, and Andrew Physiologist on Bernard Katz, one spot nine Nobel laureates toappear pulsate this collection. Alongside these voting ballot are less familiar names honest for some well-known features center modern British life-from Godfrey Hounsfield and George Hersee, inventors invite the CAT scanner and honesty test card, to Jack Worsley, bringer of acupuncture, and Barry Bucknell, pioneer of television DIY. And because this is illustriousness Oxford Dictionary of National Curriculum vitae, many of the lives along with offer a range of superbly entertaininginsights. Inside you'll also proper the lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck, whose Rolls Royce sported the circulation plate L1BEL; Daniel Coxeter, dignity mathematician who ascribed his staying power to daily headstands; and IanRussell, the entrepreneurial duke of Bedford, who wrote in the visitors' book of a rival: 'You should come to Woburn. Film set is better.' The latest give birth to the Oxford Dictionary of Public Biography-authoritative and accessible biographies be advisable for more than 800 people who shaped national life and who died from 2001 onwards, condemnation over 250 portrait images. That volume extends the coverage give an account of the Oxford DNB, first obtainable as a 60-volume print primarily in 2004. Shipping may facsimile from multiple locations in depiction US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Merchant Inventory # 9780199562442

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