Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider

Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider

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In this book Leslie Woods tells the fascinating story of his life from fisherman's son in New Zealand to head of the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University.He escaped from a trade school by winning a scholarship to university, and thenr an away from home to join the RNZAF, and later became a fighter pilot in the Pacific.

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Author tells the story of his life from fisherman's son in New Zealand to head of the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University. Discusses his involvement in research in aerodynamics, research into the theory of magnetically confined hot plasmas, and the fusion energy project. Author writes frankly about both his successes and failures.

Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider,L.C Woods,Taylor & Francis,0750306904,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Educators,New Zealand,Physicists,Physics,Physics (General),Woods, L. C. (Leslie Colin), 1,Woods, L. C. (Leslie Colin), 1922-,Science / Physics

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