Abstract
Oxford undergraduates in the post-war years were often surprised to learn that the Professor, Lord Cherwell, who conscientiously delivered, in a barely audible fashion, his weekly lectures on kinetic theory, was none other than F A Lindemann, a name familiar from textbooks on heat and thermodynamics. The explanation is that newspaper stories stressed Lindemann's role in public affairs, while even more formal accounts tended to overlook his achievements as a scientist, and in making the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford into one of the world's leading physics departments.
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