Making Physics: a Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
Making Physics crackles with the experimental energy of Brookhaven's researchers, competing among themselves as well as with other laboratories around the world. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from oral interviews and internal memos to lab notebooks and transcripts of security clearance hearings, Crease recounts the difficult founding and siting of Brookhaven, the successful resolution of immense engineering and technical problems in the design and construction of experimental apparatus, and changing relations with the surrounding Long Island community. But most of all, Crease tells fascinating stories of Brookhaven's scientists and their research, which has included detailed descriptions of the structure of the nucleus, early attempts at radiotherapy for inoperable tumors, and studies of strange particles and the weak and strong interactions.
At a time when federal funding for large scientific projects is more controversial than ever before, Crease's biography of Brookhaven has special significance. It will interest anyone concerned with the making of physics, from historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science to physicists and students of public policy.
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