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Tunnel Visions
Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for …
Pions to Quarks
Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson have assembled a prestigious group of physicists and historians of science to present a broadly balanced picture of this …
Critical Assembly
This volume is a lucid and accurate history of the technical research that led to the first atomic bombs. The authors explore how the ‘critical assembly’ of scientists, engineers …
Crystal Fire
Focuses on the human factors behind the invention of the transistor, highlighting the pride and scientific ambitions of the team who spawned the epoch-making technology
The University of Illinois
The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in …
Out of the Crystal Maze
This landmark work chronicles the origin and evolution of solid state physics, which grew to maturity between 1920 and 1960. The book examines the early roots of the field in …
Man Who Saw Tomorrow
The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.The Economist called …
Critical Assembly
This volume is a lucid and accurate history of the technical research that led to the first atomic bombs. The authors explore how the ‘critical assembly’ of scientists, engineers …
Man Who Saw Tomorrow
The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.The Economist called …
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.The Economist called …
The Rise of the Standard Model
Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to …