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Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex /

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...

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Main Author:	Hiltzik, Michael A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, > 1901-1958. Cyclotrons. Physicists > United States > Biography.

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