Tell us, Solly
Tim Radford: Solly Zuckerman, 20 September 2001
Solly Zuckerman: A Scientist out of the Ordinary
by John Peyton.
Murray, 252 pp., £22.50, May 2001,9780719562839 Show More
by John Peyton.
Murray, 252 pp., £22.50, May 2001,
“... unit began firing standard steel balls into London telephone directories. According to the page at which a ball had stopped they could calculate how much energy it had lost when penetrating the target. They went from telephone books to human flesh, borrowing what Zuckerman called ‘anatomical material taken from, and returned to, a hospital ... ”