The professor and the prime minister : the official life of Professor F.A. Lindemann, viscount Cherwell / by the Earl of Birkenhead.

Includes index

Contents: Arcadian boyhood -- Continental education -- Farnborough -- Interwar years I : the Claredon laboratory -- Interwar years II : the Oxford scene -- Air defense -- The War -- Economic background -- Out of office : 1945-1951 -- In office again : 1951-1953 -- Personal triumph : the birth of the Atomic Energy Authority -- 1953-1957 -- Lord Cherwell's scientific publications -- Sir George Thomson, F.R.S. : remarks on Lord Cherwell's work "The physical significance of the quantum theory" -- Flying bombs : Lord Cherwell's predictions in December 1943, and the facts revealed by the raids in June 1944 -- Lord Cherwell and India -- Some defects of U.N.O. --Note on the Lindemann family records