Author: HILTZIK, MICHAEL A
Title: Big science: Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex / Michael Hiltzik
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster 2016. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x. 512 pages. 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustration; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-451) and index. Contents; A heroic time -- South Dakota boy -- 'I'm going to be famous' -- Shims and sealing wax -- Oppie -- The deuton affair -- The cyclotron republic -- John Lawrence's mice -- Laureate -- Mr. Loomis -- 'Ernest. are you ready?' -- The racetrack -- Oak Ridge -- The road to Trinity -- The postwar bonanza -- Oaths and loyalties -- The shadow of the Super -- Livermore -- The Oppenheimer affair -- The return of small science -- The 'clean bomb' -- Element 103. Subjects; Lawrence. Ernest Orlando 1901-1958. Cyclotrons. Physicists - United States - Biography. Physicists. United States. Weight in Kg appr.:

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