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Of value to the enemy

history of science
Fiona Callaghan
17 June 2019
5 mins

Fiona Callaghan looks at the effects of World War II on the publication of scientific papers, in a tale featuring Royal Society Referees' Reports and the 'disappearance' of mathematician Frederick Gerard Friedlander.

Detained in Douglas

history of science
Jon Bushell
17 September 2018
5 mins

When pharmacologist Heinz Otto Schild was interned on the Isle of Man in 1940, the Royal Society was among the organisations working to secure his freedom.