Bibliograph

Big science, Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex, Michael Hiltzik

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Big science, Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex, Michael Hiltzik

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Big science

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

900665460

Responsibility statement

Michael Hiltzik

Sub title

Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex

Table Of 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

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