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Author:

Hiltzik, Michael A., author.

Title:

Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex / Michael Hiltzik.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 512 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration ; 24 cm

Subject:

Lawrence, Ernest Orlando,--1901-1958.
Cyclotrons.
Physicists--United States--Biography.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando,--1901-1958.
Cyclotrons.
Physicists.
United States.
Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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.

ISBN:

1451675755
9781451675757

OCLC:

(OCoLC)900665460

LCCN:

2014017463

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)