The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

by C. Bruce Tarter

Behind the scenes of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the quintessential American lab.

Nobel laureate Ernest O. Lawrence and renowned physicist Edward Teller founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1952. A new ideas incubator, the Lab was at the heart of nuclear testing and the development of supercomputers, lasers, and other major technological innovations of the second half of the twentieth century. Many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421425319
• ISBN13: 9781421425313
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"