biography
| name: |
Calder, (Peter) Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder of Balmashannar
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pronunciation:
[kawlder]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–82)
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| biography:
| Journalist and educationist, born in Forfar, Angus, E Scotland, UK. Specializing in the spread of scientific knowledge to lay readers, he wrote numerous books including Men Against the Desert (1951), Men Against the Jungle (1954), Living with the Atom (1962), and The Evolution of the Machine (1968). He was made a life peer in 1966. |
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