Fermilab : physics, the frontier, and megascience / Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall.

Author/creator Hoddeson, Lillian
Other author Kolb, Adrienne W.
Other author Westfall, Catherine.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Descriptionxi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory--History.
Particle accelerators--Research. --United States.
Particles (Nuclear physics)--Research. --United States.

Contents The call of the frontier -- An American dream -- The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963 -- The Berkeley design, 1963-1965 -- Midwest passage, 1965-1967 -- A new frontier on the Illinois prairie -- Wilson's vision -- Constructing the ring, 1968-1972 -- A user's paradise, 1968-1978 -- Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978 -- The road to megascience -- Lederman's vision -- Completing the doubler, 1978-1984 -- Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988 -- Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989 -- The super collider affair -- Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995 -- Authors' statements and other acknowledgements -- Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 443-469) and index.
LCCN 2008006254
ISBN9780226346236 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226346234 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks QC789.2.U62 F474 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold