Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex / Mic...
Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex / Mic...
Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex / Michael Hiltzik.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
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G 2015/3462
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English
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x, 512 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
A heroic time -- South Dakota boy -- "I'm going to be famous" -- Shims and sealing wax -- Oppie -- The deuton affair -- The cyclotron republic -- John Lawrence's mice -- Laureate -- Mr. Loomis -- "Ernest, are you ready?" -- The racetrack -- Oak Ridge -- The road to Trinity -- The postwar bonanza --...
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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"The birth of Big Science can be traced to Berkeley, California, nearly nine decades ago, when a resourceful young scientist with a talent for physics and an even greater talent for promotion pondered his new invention and declared, 'I'm going to be famous!' Ernest Orlando Lawrence's cyclotron would revolutionize nuclear physics, but that was only...
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Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex / Michael Hiltzik.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-451) and index.
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©2015.
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G 2015/3462
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74VKRdd0zw6d
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ISBN
1451675763 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781451675757 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1451675755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781451676037 (ebook)
1451676034 (ebook)
9781451675764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
530.092
MMS ID
991023040529702626
