Hiltzik, Michael A
Big Science : Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex - New York Simon & Schuster 2015 - x, 512p. ill.
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.
9781451675764 (pbk)
Cyclotrons
Physicists--United States--Biography.
53 / HIL
Big Science : Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex - New York Simon & Schuster 2015 - x, 512p. ill.
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.
9781451675764 (pbk)
Cyclotrons
Physicists--United States--Biography.
53 / HIL