Making Physics
A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972
441 pages, 77 halftones, 5 maps, 12 line drawings 6 x 9
©
1999
Paper $29.00
ISBN: 9780226120195
Published May 2000
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
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