Big science
Subtitle: Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-Industrial complex
By: Michael Hiltzik
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781451675757; 9781451675764
Subjects: Cyclotrons; Physicists; Biography
Description: "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 the beginning of its impact. It would change our understanding of the basic building blocks of nature. It would help win World War II. Its influence would be felt in academia and international politics. It was the beginning of Big Science, "--Novelist.
Table of contents: title: A heroic time; title: South Dakota boy; title: "I'm going to be famous"; title: Shims and sealing wax; title: Oppie; title: The deuton affair; title: The cyclotron republic; title: John Lawrence's mice; title: Laureate; title: Mr. Loomis; title: "Ernest, are you ready?"; title: The racetrack; title: Oak Ridge; title: The road to Trinity; title: The postwar bonanza; title: Oaths and loyalties; title: The shadow of the Super; title: Livermore; title: The Oppenheimer affair; title: The return of small science; title: The "clean bomb"; title: Element 103.