Big Science: Ernest Lawrence And The Invention That Launched The Military-Industrial Complex

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

• | Author: Michael Hiltzik
• | Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 560 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1451675763
• | ISBN-13: 9781451675764