Making physics : a biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972

Making physics : a biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 /

"From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics to community concerns over radiation leaks, Brookhaven National Laboratory's ups and downs track the changing fortunes of "big science" in the United States since World War II. But Brookhaven is also unique; it was the first major...

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Main Author: Crease, Robert P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Brookhaven National Laboratory > History.
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory > Histoire.
Upton <NY> / Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Geschichte 1946-1972.
Nuclear physics > Research > New York (State) > Upton > History.
Nuclear physics.
Research.
Nuclear Physics
Research
Physique nucléaire > Recherche > New York (État) > Upton > Histoire.
Physique nucléaire.
Recherche.
nuclear physics.
research (function)
33.40 nuclear physics: general.
Nuclear physics > Research.
Kernfysica.
New York (State) > Upton.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • App. 1. Some Key Personnel of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Associated Universities, Inc.

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