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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Table of 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.