| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
x, 512 pages, 24 unnumbered unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-487) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went “big,” built the bombs that helped win World War II, and became dependent on government and industry—and the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence. |
| Subject |
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
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Cyclotrons.
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Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
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Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958. (OCoLC)fst00074979
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Cyclotrons. (OCoLC)fst00886021
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Physicists. (OCoLC)fst01063014
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781451675757 (hardcover) |
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1451675755 (hardcover) |
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