Lawrence and his laboratory. Volume 1
Book
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OSTI ID:6505365
This book is first a history of the Radiation Laboratory set up by Earnest Orlando Lawrence at Berkeley, California. Also, a new history of nuclear experimental physics beginning with the work on nuclear disintegrations by Crockcroft and Walton in 1932 and carried through Chadwick's hypothesis of the neutron, Joliot's discovery of artificial radiation, and Fermi's demonstrations of the importance of slow neutrons up to fission studies and the discovery of plutonium by Seaborg is provided. The attitudes in Europe toward accelerators are detailed. The book is also a study of power games played by scientists among themselves and in their dealings with politicians, industrialists, and the press. About two-thirds of the items cited in the notes to the book are from private letters.
- OSTI ID:
- 6505365
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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