03734nam 2200637 450 991049613830332120231019182734.00-520-34108-20-585-34665-810.1525/9780520341081(CKB)111004366700900(MH)001828486-8(SSID)ssj0000189953(PQKBManifestationID)12021149(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189953(PQKBWorkID)10165687(PQKB)11024284(DE-B1597)544354(DE-B1597)9780520341081(OCoLC)1163878027(MiAaPQ)EBC30682084(Au-PeEL)EBL30682084(EXLCZ)9911100436670090020231019d1989 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLawrence and His LaboratoryVolume I. A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory /J. L. Heilbron and Robert W. SeidelFirst edition.Berkeley, California :University of California Press,[1989]©19891 online resource (volumes) illustrations (some color)California Studies in the History of Science Series ;Volume 5No more published."A Centennial book"--V. 1, p. [iii].Includes index.0-520-06426-7 Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, page [525]-575) and index.El Dorado --A Million Volts or Bust --Foundations of the Rad Lab --Research and Development, 1932-36 --Cast of Characters --American Cyclotronics --Technology Transfer --New Lines --Little-Team Research with Big-Time Consequences --Between Peace and War.The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born. Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used local and national technological, economic, and manpower resources to build the cyclotron, which enabled scientists to produce high-voltage particles without high voltages. The cyclotron brought Lawrence forcibly and permanently to the attention of leaders of international physics in Brussels at the Solvay Congress of 1933. Ever since, the Rad Lab has played a prominent part on the world stage. The book tells of the birth of nuclear chemistry and nuclear medicine in the Laboratory, the discoveries of new isotopes and the transuranic elements, the construction of the ultimate cyclotron, Lawrence's Nobel Prize, and the energy, enthusiasm, and enterprise of Laboratory staff. Two more volumes are planned to carry the story through the Second World War, the establishment of the system of national laboratories, and the loss of Berkeley's dominance of high-energy physics.California studies in the history of science ;Volume 5.PhysicistsUnited StatesBiographyPhysicists539.7/0720794/67Heilbron J. L.461666Seidel Robert W.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910496138303321Lawrence and his laboratory2864526UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress