Big Science : Ernest Lawrence and the Invention the Launched the Military-Industrial Complex (CD-Audio)

from BookWallah

Fascinating biography of the man who figured out how to raise money for "Big Science" (large, expensive, multi-disciplinary programs) from philanthropists, industry, AND the government. Essential he created the modern (industrial) research lab by the sheer force of his own personality. Many today...

from kukulaj

I was a bit of an accelerator groupie in my high school years, the early 1970s. I got to hang out a bit at both Argonne National Lab and Fermilab. I went on to get a Master's degree... ABD.. but that was theoretical condensed matter physics, so I drifted pretty far from the bubble chambers! I re...

from GeoffHabiger

Michael Hiltzik's Big Science is a hugely interesting and fascinating look into the world of physics, and physics' interaction with government and industry, during the first half of the 20th Century. Big Science is mostly a biography about Ernest Lawrence, the inventory of the cyclotron, and also...

from GeoffHabiger

Michael Hiltzik's Big Science is a hugely interesting and fascinating look into the world of physics, and physics' interaction with government and industry, during the first half of the 20th Century. Big Science is mostly a biography about Ernest Lawrence, the inventory of the cyclotron, and also...