Sir Charles Goodeve1904 — 1980 |
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Biographical Memoirs
by F. D. Richardson FRS
(reproduced from the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal SocietyVolume 27, November 1981)
Browse through the Table of Contents or go straight to the full text of the memoir.
also...
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I recently discovered that the full text of Gerald Pawle's marvellous book "The Secret War 1939-45", about Dad's "Wheezers and Dodgers" department in the Admiralty, is available for free download at Archive.org. The original photo plates are also included, but are unfortunately now black and white -- literally! (They always were black-and-white of course, but all grey scale has been lost!) The original title "The Secret War" turned out to be a slightly unfortunate choice, as there are at least two others with the same or similar name. So Pawle's one got renamed "Secret Weapons of World War II" in the US, and is still available from Amazon as (a $0.99 Kindle eBook!) "The Wheezers and Dodgers". Well worth checking out IMO. Look up some of the reviews at GoodReads or Amazon, if you doubt! |
and more...
The Magnetic Mine and Countermeasures
Some photos and explanation of a mine mechanism.The Oerlikon Gun
"The Ice Ship Fiasco"
A 1951 article in which Sir Charles lays out his unambiguous opinion
of the World-War-II "Habakkuk" project...
I (his son, Peter) add some comments of my own on this topic here
"How Society Works"
In 1975, Sir Charles founded 'OPUS'. This pamphlet was published
by that organisation the same year.
"First Operational Research Conference, Oxford 1957"
Sir Charles was in charge of organizing this conference in the
emerging discipline of Operational research.
The above link is a photo of the "Front Row" of participants.
Here is a larger (much larger!)
photo of all the attendees with mouse-accessible names attached to most.
You can find a good description of the
Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
(and more pictures)
as it was installed on the
USS Slater.
A CDROM on the history of the British Iron and Steel Research Association
has recently been produced. The authors' description is here (not connected
with this site):
"BISRA — The Immortal Memory"