Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I Volume 5

by J.L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel

Book Overview

The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born. Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used local and national technological, economic, and manpower resources to build the cyclotron, which enabled scientists to produce high-voltage particles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520064267
• ISBN13: 9780520064263
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"