Fermilab
Subtitle: physics, the frontier, and the rise of megascience
By: Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall.
Contributors: Kolb, Adrienne W.; Westfall, Catherine.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780226346236
Subjects: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- History; Particle accelerators -- Research -- United States; Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Research -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The call of the frontier; title: An American dream; title: The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963; title: The Berkeley design, 1963-1965; title: Midwest passage, 1965-1967; title: A new frontier on the Illinois prairie; title: Wilson's vision; title: Constructing the ring, 1968-1972; title: A user's paradise, 1968-1978; title: Beyond the horizon: the energy doubler, 1967-1978; title: The road to megascience; title: Lederman's vision; title: Completing the doubler, 1978-1984; title: Bigger science: experiment strings, 1970-1988; title: Megascience realized: colliding beams, 1967-1989; title: The super collider affair, 1982-1989; title: Epilogue: light on the horizon, 1989-1995; title: Authors' statements and other acknowledgements; title: Appendix: Fermilab experiments 1970-1990.