HENRI-GEORGES DOLL was a true pioneer of modern applied science - one of the great, but little known French and American inventors of the 20th century. A Sixth Sense is the first biography of a man who became a founder of oilfield giant Schlumberger, and blazed a trail during the golden age of oil exploration for much of what we know today about remote sensing. From the Introduction ON MARCH 18, 1940, FRENCH ARMY LIEUTENANT HENRI-GEORGES DOLL came to the United States Embassy in Paris to give a deposition. Europe was at war: In September 1939, Germany had invaded Poland. England and France had declared war on Germany, while the United States and Italy remained neutral. Doll, a geophysicist and engineer, had been mobilized to the front. But he was quickly recalled to Paris to work on a radical new device for detecting the German land mines that French intelligence had learned were being deployed on a vast scale. Doll's deposition, however, had nothing to do with the...

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