True genius
Subtitle: the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of
By: Joel N. Shurkin
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781633882232
Subjects: Physicists; Biography
Description: "The first biography of Richard Garwin, a physicist whose work has had wide-ranging impacts on modern life from well-known technical innovations to progress in nuclear disarmament"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: The tinkerers; title: Fermi; title: The super; title: Garwin's design; title: Garwin, Lederman, and the Marx Brothers; title: IBM & LampLight; title: Advising presidents-or not; title: JASONS; title: Vietnam and McNamara's Wall; title: Super sonic transport; title: Offense; title: The great gap; title: Treaty; title: Star wars; title: Gravity; title: Health, pandemics; title: Far out; title: Rumpled; title: Decline of influence.