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Fermilab : physics, the frontier, and megascience / Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xi, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226346236 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 539.7/30973 22
LOC classification:
  • QC789.2.U62 F474 2008
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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