Big science: Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex / Michael Hiltzik
2016, 1st edition. New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #236946
Physical description; x, 512 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustration; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-451) and index. 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 -- Oaths and loyalties -- The shadow of the Super -- Livermore -- The Oppenheimer affair -- The return of small science -- The "clean bomb" -- Element 103. Subjects; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando 1901-1958. Cyclotrons. Physicists - United States - Biography. Physicists. United States.
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