TY - BOOK AU - Hoddeson,Lillian AU - Kolb,Adrienne W. AU - Westfall,Catherine TI - Fermilab: physics, the frontier, and megascience SN - 9780226346236 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - QC789.2.U62 F474 2008 U1 - 539.7/30973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory KW - History KW - Particle accelerators KW - Research KW - United States KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0810/2008006254.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008006254-d.html ER -