Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
by J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel

Publisher: University of California Press 1989
ISBN/ASIN: 0520064267
ISBN-13: 9780520064263
Number of pages: 586

Description:
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.