Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
From a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went big,built the bombs that helped win World War II, and became dependent on government and industry and the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence.Since the 1930s, the...
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From a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went big,built the bombs that helped win World War II, and became dependent on government and industry and the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence.Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially. Machines have become larger
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781451675757 (1451675755)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Ernest Lawrence, the nuclear bomb program, and accelerator science are all linked inextricably in history. Lawrence was a talented experimentalist, a gifted lab manager and talent scout, and a spell-weaving salesman. Before him, most science was tabletop experiments with budgets pulled together fr...
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