Science in art of war
The fate during the Middle Ages till the early Enlightenment was same for scientists who tried to defy the Church. From Giordano Bruno to Galileo , reason was overshadowed by the sword of religion. This was the first phase of death of science by the face of power. During World War I, the second phase occurred wherein a notable physicist, Henry Moseley, who changed the very structure of the fundamental arrangement of all the elemental nature of matter i.e. the periodic table died in the battle of Gallipoli. Having determined the relationship between the X-ray frequencies of atoms and their atomic number in his 20’s, Henry was set out to achieve his Nobel Prize in the comings years. But as fate would have it, he died not as a scientist lending his mind, but as a frontline soldier in the battlefield. With time, advancements in science reshaped the way scientists were viewed. Being given, rather a first class citizen status during World War II, the United States under Opera...