Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972
Autor Robert P. Creaseen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2000
Brookhaven National Laboratory was the first major national laboratory built for basic civilian research. From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics to addressing community concerns over radiation leaks, the history of Brookhaven parallels the changing fortunes of "big science" in the United States. Robert P. Crease brings to life the people, the instruments, the science, and the politics of Brookhaven's first quarter-century.
"[A] very readable, well illustrated and sometimes even racy, recounting of Brookhaven's history, politics and personalities."—Denys Wilkinson, Physics World
"[A] very readable, well illustrated and sometimes even racy, recounting of Brookhaven's history, politics and personalities."—Denys Wilkinson, Physics World
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226120195
ISBN-10: 0226120198
Pagini: 441
Ilustrații: 77 halftones, 5 maps, 12 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226120198
Pagini: 441
Ilustrații: 77 halftones, 5 maps, 12 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Robert P. Crease is associate professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is the author of The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance and coauthor of The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Team of Young General Groveses
2. A Reluctant Director, a Remote Site
3. National Laboratory
4. The "Brookhaven Concept"
5. The Pile Project
6. Community Relations
7. The Accelerator Project
8. Reactor Research in the 1950s
9. "For the Enlightenment and Benefit of Mankind": Research at the Cosmotron
10. Goldhaber's Directorship
11. Research at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
12. The High Flux Beam Reactor
13. Crossroad
Appendix 1: Some Key Personnel of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Associated Universities, Inc.
Appendix 2: Chairmen of Key Brookhaven National Laboratory Departments
Notes
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Team of Young General Groveses
2. A Reluctant Director, a Remote Site
3. National Laboratory
4. The "Brookhaven Concept"
5. The Pile Project
6. Community Relations
7. The Accelerator Project
8. Reactor Research in the 1950s
9. "For the Enlightenment and Benefit of Mankind": Research at the Cosmotron
10. Goldhaber's Directorship
11. Research at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
12. The High Flux Beam Reactor
13. Crossroad
Appendix 1: Some Key Personnel of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Associated Universities, Inc.
Appendix 2: Chairmen of Key Brookhaven National Laboratory Departments
Notes
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index