Prof: the Life of Frederick Lindemann.(Book Review)

From: Geographical | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

by Adrian Fort Jonathan Cape, hb, pp384, 18.99 [pounds sterling]

In the early days of the First World War, spin was costing lives--in the form of the spiralling dives of fighter pilots who'd lost control of their planes. It took genius to work out how to counteract the phenomenon and courage bordering on lunacy to deliberately spin a plane to test the theory, but that's what Frederick Lindemann did--memorising a series of complicated measurements while his plane plummeted towards the ground.

Lindemann--the son of a German immigrant and later Lord Cherwell--spent the ...

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