Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex /
Michael Hiltzik.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- x, 512 p., 24 p. of plates.
Bibliography : p. 447 - 451
A heroic time -- South Dakota boy -- "I'm going to be famous" -- Shims and sealing wax -- Oppie -- The deuton affair -- The cyclotron republic -- John Lawrence's mice -- Laureate -- Mr. Loomis -- "Ernest, are you ready?" -- The racetrack -- Oak Ridge -- The road to Trinity -- The postwar bonanza -- Oaths and loyalties -- The shadow of the Super -- Livermore -- The Oppenheimer affair -- The return of small science -- The "clean bomb" -- Element 103.