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Adventures in the atomic age : from Watts to Washington /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999
Other Authors: Seaborg, Eric, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Seaborg, Glenn T. > (Glenn Theodore), > 1912-1999.
Science and state > United States.
Nuclear energy > Government policy > United States.
Science consultants > United States > Biography.
Chemists > United States > Biography.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A Michigan boyhood
  • 2. California here we come
  • 3. A free education
  • 4. Graduate school wonderland
  • 5. Apprentice to a master chemist
  • 6. The bomb splits
  • 7. Plutonium : a secret discovery
  • 8. The Manhattan Project
  • 9. Scaling up a billion times
  • 10. Reflections on the bomb
  • 11. Rearranging the table of elements
  • 12. Back to the rad lab
  • 13. The H-bomb and Oppenheimer
  • 14. Big prizes : children, elements, and a Nobel
  • 15. A Chancellor's three challenges
  • 16. Kennedy's call : a move to Washington
  • 17. LBJ : a president and a friend
  • 18. Troubles with Nixon and a look inside the AEC
  • 19. Nuclear power : its past and future
  • 20. A professor again.