Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96
By: Jack M. Holl ; with the assistance of Richard G. Hewlett and Ruth R. Harris ; foreword by Alan Schriesheim.
Contributors: Hewlett, Richard G.; Harris, Ruth Roy.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press; University of Illinois
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 644
Subjects: Argonne National Laboratory -- History.
Description: This accessibly written history takes the lab from its emergence out of the Manhattan Project and the University of Chicago "Met Labs" to the present. The book traces Argonne's constant concern with reactors, basic research, and its relationship with the midwestern science community and equally constant search for identity and mission as public and political priorities shifted.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-609) and index.