Fermilab physics, the frontier, and megascience /

Main Author: Hoddeson, Lillian.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Kolb, Adrienne W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10317877
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245 1 0 |a Fermilab  |b physics, the frontier, and megascience /  |c Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall. 
260 |a Chicago :  |b University of Chicago Press,  |c 2008. 
300 |a xi, 497 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-469) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Particle accelerators  |x Research  |z United States. 
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