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245 10 a| Big science :b| Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex /c| Michael Hiltzik.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Simon & Schuster,c| 2015.;

300 a| x, 512 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustration ;c| 24 cm;

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505 0 a| 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.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-451) and index.;

520 a| "The birth of Big Science can be traced to Berkeley, California, nearly nine decades ago, when a resourceful young scientist with a talent for physics and an even greater talent for promotion pondered his new invention and declared, 'I'm going to be famous!' Ernest Orlando Lawrence's cyclotron would revolutionize nuclear physics, but that was only the beginning of its impact. It would change our understanding of the basic building blocks of nature. It would help win World War II. Its influence would be felt in academia and international politics. It was the beginning of Big Science, "--Novelist.;

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Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex / Michael Hiltzik.

Author/creator	Hiltzik, Michael A. author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Copyright Date	©2015
Description	x, 512 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration ; 24 cm
Subjects	Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958. Cyclotrons. Physicists--United States. --Biography.

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.
Abstract	"The birth of Big Science can be traced to Berkeley, California, nearly nine decades ago, when a resourceful young scientist with a talent for physics and an even greater talent for promotion pondered his new invention and declared, 'I'm going to be famous!' Ernest Orlando Lawrence's cyclotron would revolutionize nuclear physics, but that was only the beginning of its impact. It would change our understanding of the basic building blocks of nature. It would help win World War II. Its influence would be felt in academia and international politics. It was the beginning of Big Science, "--Novelist.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-451) and index.
Genre/form	Biographies.
Genre/form	Biography.
Genre/form	Biographies.
LCCN	2014017463
ISBN	9781451675757 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	1451675755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781451676037 (ebook)
ISBN	1451676034 (ebook)
ISBN	9781451675764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	1451675763 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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