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Lightning on the veld

Nature volume 416, pages 478–479 (2002)Cite this article

Schonland: Scientist and Soldier

  • Brian Austin
Institute of Physics Publishing: 2001. 639 pp. £49, $73.

A product of the English type of public school, young Basil's career combined brilliant scholastic triumphs with sturdy character development. He acquired from early youth a belief in the ideals of service to King and Country, and also qualities of leadership, which guided this intellectual brilliance to the benefit of all who later came under his authority.

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Edwin Black Nature published a correction (Nature 415, 370; 2002) citing two errors in a review by Professor Howard Segal of the book IBM and The Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black (Nature 411, 993–994; 2001). In addition, Professor Segal, in his review, asserted that the book's author exaggerated the importance of punch-card machines. Nature has been made aware that the reviewer has retracted this assertion, stating: “In fact, I know of no evidence or documentation that the book included any exaggeration at all.”

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