Ronald W. Clark

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Ronald William Clark (born November 2, 1916 , † March 9, 1987 ) was a British journalist, biographer and author of science fiction and alternate history novels.

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Ronald W. Clark attended King's College School and worked as a journalist from 1933. During the Second World War he was a war correspondent in 1944 when the Allies landed on D-Day in Juno Beach and reported on the Nuremberg trials after the war .

After the war he became known as the author of biographies, especially a biography about Albert Einstein , on which he wrote for three years and researched archives around the world. He also wrote biographies of Charles Darwin , Thomas Alva Edison , Lenin , Benjamin Franklin , Sigmund Freud , JBS Haldane , Bertrand Russell and the American cryptologist William F. Friedman, among others . He has also written several books on mountaineering, travel guides for Great Britain, Balmoral Castle , two books on the history of the atomic bomb, and some science fiction and alternate history novels in which he speculates what would have happened if the atomic bomb had been invented by Queen Victoria would.

Fonts (selection)

Rockclimbing:

  • The Day the Rope Broke: The Story of the First Ascent of the Matterhorn . 1965
  • Men, myths and mountains . Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1976
  • The Alps . Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1973
  • Early Alpine Guides . London 1949, Scribners 1950
  • True book about mountaineering . London 1957
  • Six great mountaineers , London. Hamilton 1956

Biographies and History:

  • Albert Einstein- life and work . Munich, Heyne, 1976, 7th edition 1986, English original: Einstein: The Life and Times . New York, World Pub. 1971, ISBN 0-380-01159-X
  • Sigmund Freud- life and work . S. Fischer 1981, Fischer TB 1985, English original: Freud- the man and the cause . Jonathan Cape 1980
  • Bertrand Russell- philosopher, pacifist, politician , Heyne 1984, English original: Bertrand Russell and His World . Thames and Hudson 1981, ISBN 0-500-13070-1
  • Charles Darwin - biography of a man and an idea . Fischer TB 1990, English original: The Survival of Charles Darwin: a biography of a man and an idea , Random House 1984, ISBN 0-380-69991-5
  • Edison: The Man Who Made The Future , MacDonald and Jan's, 1977, ISBN 0-399-11952-3 .
  • The Man Who Broke Purple: the Life of Colonel William F. Friedman, who Deciphered the Japanese Code in World War II . Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1977.
  • Great moments in espionage . London 1963
  • Great moments of rescue . London 1959
  • Great moments in escaping . London 1958
  • The Greatest Power on Earth: The Story of Nuclear Fission . Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980, ISBN 0-283-98715-4
  • The birth of the bomb - the untold story of Britain's part in the weapon that changed the world . London, Phoenix House, 1961
  • The Huxleys , London, Heinemann, New York, McGraw Hill 1968
  • JBS: The Life and Work of JBS Haldane , 1968, ISBN 0-340-04444-6
  • Sir Winston Churchill . New York 1962
  • Sir Mortimer Wheeler . New York 1960
  • Sir John Cockcroft . 1959
  • Tizard . London, Methuen 1965
  • Sir Edward Appleton . Oxford 1971
  • Was winners . London 1979
  • Scientific breakthrough - the impact of modern invention . Putnam 1974
  • The life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin and beyond . St. Martins Press 1985
  • Benjamin Franklin - a biography . Random House 1983
  • Works of man . Viking 1980
  • The role of the bomber . London 1977
  • Battle for Britain - 16 weeks that changed the course of history . London 1965
  • Montgomery of Alamein . London 1960
  • The history of exploration of the earth . Ravensburg, O. Maier 1964
  • The rise of the boffins . London 1962

Various:

  • Royal Albert Hall ., London 1958
  • Balmoral, Queen Victoria's Highland Home . Thames and Hudson 1981, ISBN 0-500-25078-2

Novels:

  • Queen Victoria's Bomb . 1967
  • The Last Year of the Old World (US title: The Bomb That Failed ). London, Cape, 1970, ISBN 0-224-61778-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clark, Ronald W on sf-encyclopedia.com accessed on August 20, 2020]
  2. ↑ In particular, he was given access to the Einstein Archives at Princeton
  3. ^ Communication, Powells Books
  4. ↑ Boffin is the colloquial term for scientists in Great Britain who work with the military, especially the Royal Air Force
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Ronald W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, Ronald William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1916
DATE OF DEATH 1987