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"I was fortunate in having an instructor at the University of
Minnesota who was looking after me," recalled one electrical
engineering graduate of 1949. "When I said, 'What's next?' he said,
'If I were you, I'd just go down the street here to Engineering
Research Associates, and I'd think you'd like what they're doing
there'." That was Seymour Cray, and his computer designs helped
create a notable computer industry in the Twin Cities. Another
Minnesota graduate, Earl Bakken (class of 1948), founded Medtronic
and the core of a nationally renowned medical devices industry. For
75 years the Institute of Technology, now the College of Science
and Engineering, has pioneered in research, innovation, and
technology transfer to Minnesota and the world. The people behind
this unique institution are revealed in this concise illustrated
history, prepared by its own team of professional historians.
"I was fortunate in having an instructor at the University of
Minnesota who was looking after me," recalled one electrical
engineering graduate of 1949. "When I said, 'What's next?' he said,
'If I were you, I'd just go down the street here to Engineering
Research Associates, and I'd think you'd like what they're doing
there'." That was Seymour Cray, and his computer designs helped
create a notable computer industry in the Twin Cities. Another
Minnesota graduate, Earl Bakken (class of 1948), founded Medtronic
and the core of a nationally renowned medical devices industry. For
75 years the Institute of Technology, now the College of Science
and Engineering, has pioneered in research, innovation, and
technology transfer to Minnesota and the world. The people behind
this unique institution are revealed in this concise illustrated
history, prepared by its own team of professional historians.
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.
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