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English historian

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Margaret Mary Gowing (née Elliott), was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's...

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1988Fellow of the Royal Society
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Fellow of the British Academy

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Margaret Mary Gowing (née Elliott), was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programmes: Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945, published in 1964, and the two-volume Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy 1945-52, published in 1974.

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Lived 1921 to 1998 · aged 77
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