Fermilab
Hoddeson, Lillian.
Fermilab physics, the frontier, and megascience / [electronic resource] : Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xi, 497 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-469) and index.
The call of the frontier -- An American dream -- The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963 -- The Berkeley design, 1963-1965 -- Midwest passage, 1965-1967 -- A new frontier on the Illinois prairie -- Wilson's vision -- Constructing the ring, 1968-1972 -- A user's paradise, 1968-1978 -- Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978 -- The road to megascience -- Lederman's vision -- Completing the doubler, 1978-1984 -- Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988 -- Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989 -- The super collider affair -- Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995 -- Authors' statements and other acknowledgements -- Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA890558 bnb
Uk
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory--History.
Particle accelerators--Research--United States.
Particles (Nuclear physics)--Research--United States.
Electronic books.
QC789.2.U62 / F474 2008eb
539.7/30973
Fermilab physics, the frontier, and megascience / [electronic resource] : Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xi, 497 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-469) and index.
The call of the frontier -- An American dream -- The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963 -- The Berkeley design, 1963-1965 -- Midwest passage, 1965-1967 -- A new frontier on the Illinois prairie -- Wilson's vision -- Constructing the ring, 1968-1972 -- A user's paradise, 1968-1978 -- Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978 -- The road to megascience -- Lederman's vision -- Completing the doubler, 1978-1984 -- Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988 -- Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989 -- The super collider affair -- Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995 -- Authors' statements and other acknowledgements -- Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA890558 bnb
Uk
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory--History.
Particle accelerators--Research--United States.
Particles (Nuclear physics)--Research--United States.
Electronic books.
QC789.2.U62 / F474 2008eb
539.7/30973