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Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I Volume 5 Hardcover - 1990

by J. L. Heilbron; Robert W. Seidel


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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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This is a first-rate contribution to the history of science and--in view of the central importance of physics for modern civilization--to the history of the twentieth century in general.--Spencer R. Weart, Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics

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  • Title Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I Volume 5
  • Author J. L. Heilbron; Robert W. Seidel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 648
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1990-02-16
  • ISBN 9780520064263 / 0520064267
  • Weight 2.42 lbs (1.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.56 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Physicists - United States - Biography, Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89004820
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

J. L. Heilbron is Class of 1936 Professor of History and History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science (California, 1986), among many other books.
Since 1985, Robert W. Seidel has been the Administrator of the Bradbury Science Museum at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and has written numerous articles on the history of the DOE national laboratories and on the history of military laser research and development.
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