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Author:
Shurkin, Joel N., 1938- author.
Title:
True genius : the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of / Joel N. Shurkin.
Publisher:
Prometheus Books,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Garwin, Richard L.
Garwin, Richard L.
Physicists--United States--Biography.
Physicists.
United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Biographies.
Biography.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index.
Contents:
The tinkerers -- Fermi -- The super -- Garwin's design -- Garwin, Lederman, and the Marx Brothers -- IBM & LampLight -- Advising presidents-or not -- JASONS -- Vietnam and McNamara's Wall -- Super sonic transport -- Offense -- The great gap -- Treaty -- Star wars -- Gravity -- Health, pandemics -- Far out -- Rumpled -- Decline of influence.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1633882233
9781633882232
OCLC:
(OCoLC)950635562
LCCN:
2016032730
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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