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It was in his research group in Cambridge that Dorothy Hodgkin started her research, He was later Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also prominent in political life particularly in the 1930s, after having left the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1933.
He is known also as joint inventor of the Mulberry Harbour, and for proposing the Bernal sphere. A fictional portrait of him appears in the novel The Search, an early work of C. P. SnowSnow born Charles Percy Snow ( 1905- 1980) was a scientist and novelist. Born in Leicester, he was educated at University College, Leicester and Cambridge University, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, an elite, intellectual secret societ.
Martin BernalMartin Bernal is a scholar who claims classical civilization in Ancient Greece actually stems from Afroasiatic and Semitic cultures, not just from Europe. He calls this the Ancient Model in contrast with the Silent Aryan Model the set of beliefs he seeks, author of Black AthenaBlack Athena is a work by Martin Bernal, expounding a controversial hypothesis that ancient Greece derived much of its cultural roots from Egyptian and Phoenician influences, which would then in turn, influence the development of Western civilization dram, is his son. Bernal, John Desmond Bernal, John Desmond Bernal, John Desmond