LEADER 03734nam 2200637 450 001 9910496138303321 005 20231019182734.0 010 $a0-520-34108-2 010 $a0-585-34665-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520341081 035 $a(CKB)111004366700900 035 $a(MH)001828486-8 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189953 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12021149 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189953 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165687 035 $a(PQKB)11024284 035 $a(DE-B1597)544354 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520341081 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878027 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30682084 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30682084 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366700900 100 $a20231019d1989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLawrence and His Laboratory$hVolume I. $eA History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory /$fJ. L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBerkeley, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1989] 210 4$dİ1989 215 $a1 online resource (volumes) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aCalifornia Studies in the History of Science Series ;$vVolume 5 300 $aNo more published. 300 $a"A Centennial book"--V. 1, p. [iii]. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-520-06426-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (volume 1, page [525]-575) and index. 327 $tEl Dorado --$tA Million Volts or Bust --$tFoundations of the Rad Lab --$tResearch and Development, 1932-36 --$tCast of Characters --$tAmerican Cyclotronics --$tTechnology Transfer --$tNew Lines --$tLittle-Team Research with Big-Time Consequences --$tBetween Peace and War. 330 $aThe Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born. Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used local and national technological, economic, and manpower resources to build the cyclotron, which enabled scientists to produce high-voltage particles without high voltages. The cyclotron brought Lawrence forcibly and permanently to the attention of leaders of international physics in Brussels at the Solvay Congress of 1933. Ever since, the Rad Lab has played a prominent part on the world stage. The book tells of the birth of nuclear chemistry and nuclear medicine in the Laboratory, the discoveries of new isotopes and the transuranic elements, the construction of the ultimate cyclotron, Lawrence's Nobel Prize, and the energy, enthusiasm, and enterprise of Laboratory staff. Two more volumes are planned to carry the story through the Second World War, the establishment of the system of national laboratories, and the loss of Berkeley's dominance of high-energy physics. 410 0$aCalifornia studies in the history of science ;$vVolume 5. 606 $aPhysicists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aPhysicists 676 $a539.7/0720794/67 700 $aHeilbron$b J. L.$0461666 702 $aSeidel$b Robert W. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496138303321 996 $aLawrence and his laboratory$92864526 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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