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Robert P. Crease

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
Subjects



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