The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist (Record no. 297018)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781785784347
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 629 BUC-C
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Personal name Douglas Buck
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Title The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Icon Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
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Extent 286 pages
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Summary, etc. Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged 32 of a mysterious heart attack, just after a high-profile group of Soviet scientists visited his lab on a cold war-era tour of the USA. Buck was not the only scientist to expire that day - his colleague Dr Ridenour, chief scientist at Lockheed, also died of an unexplained heart attack. Both deaths are consistent with KGB contact-poison hits. Recently discovered papers reveal Buck's extensive career in clandestine government work, that had led to his contact with Russia's top computer scientists. His work was filed away and rediscovered in the 1980s when it was used in research projects by NASA. A fascinating narrative history of Cold War era computer and tech research, combining social historical elements to produce a brilliant portrait of America in the mid-20th century.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Cryotron
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 26/04/2019   629 BUC-C DCB3624 26/04/2019 26/04/2019 Book