《Lawrence and His Laboratory》是1990年2月University of California Press出版的圖書，作者是Heilbron、J. L.Seidel Robert W。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Lawrence and His Laboratory
- 作者：J. L.Seidel Robert W、Heilbron
- 出版社：University of California Press
- 出版時間：1990年2月
- 頁數：586 頁
- ISBN：9780520064263
- 副標題： A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I
內容簡介
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.
