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Making Physics - A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Making Physics - A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics to community
concerns over radiation leaks, Brookhaven National Laboratory's ups
and downs track the changing fortunes of "big science" in the
United States since World War II. But Brookhaven is also unique; it
was the first major national laboratory built specifically for
basic civilian research. This text brings to life the people, the
instruments, the science, and the politics of Brookhaven's first
quarter-century. The book shows the experimental energy of
Brookhaven's researchers, competing among themselves as well as
with other laboratories around the world. Drawing on a wide variety
of sources, from oral interviews and internal memos to lab
notebooks and transcripts of security clearance hearings, Robert P.
Crease recounts the difficult founding and siting of Brookhaven,
the successful resolution of immense engineering and technical
problems in the design and construction of experimental apparatus,
and changing relations with the surrounding Long Island community.
But most of all, Crease tells the stories of Brookhaven's
scientists and their research, which has included detailed
descriptions of the structure of the nucleus, early attempts at
radiotherapy for inoperable tumours, and studies of strange
particles and the weak and strong interactions.
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