Adventures in the atomic age
Subtitle: from Watts to Washington
By: Glenn T. Seaborg with Eric Seaborg.
Contributors: Seaborg, Eric, 1954-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912-; Science and state -- United States.; Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- United States.; Science consultants -- United States -- Biography.; Chemists -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Autobiography of Nobel Prize winner, Glenn Seaborg.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ONE: A Michigan Boyhood 3; title: Two: California Here We Come 9; title: THREE: A Free Education 17; title: FOUR: Graduate School Wonderland 23; title: FIVE: Apprentice to a Master Chemist 41; title: SIX: The Atom Splits 54; title: SEVEN: Plutonium: A Secret Discovery 65; title: EIGHT: The Manhattan Project 86; title: NINE: Scaling Up a Billion Times 104; title: TEN: Reflections on the Bomb 118; title: ELEVEN: Rearranging the Table of Elements 125; title: TWELVE: Back to the Rad Lab 131; title: THIRTEEN: The H-Bomb and Oppenheimer 138; title: FOURTEEN: Big Prizes: Children, Elements, and a Nobel 147; title: FIFTEEN: A Chancellor's Three Challenges 158; title: SIXTEEN: Kennedy's Call: A Move to Washington 180; title: SEVENTEEN: LBJ: A President and a Friend 199; title: EIGHTEEN: Troubles with Nixon-and a Look Inside the AEC 212; title: NINETEEN: Nuclear Power: Its Past and Future 239; title: TWENTY: A Professor Again 252; title: Epilogue, by Eric Seaborg 293; title: Acknowledgments 297; title: Photo Credits 299; title: Index 301.