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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
312

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Subjects
Science and state, Government policy, Nuclear energy, Chemists, Science consultants, Biography, Scientists, biography
People
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-)
Places
United States

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: ONE: A Michigan Boyhood 3
Two: California Here We Come 9
THREE: A Free Education 17
FOUR: Graduate School Wonderland 23
FIVE: Apprentice to a Master Chemist 41
SIX: The Atom Splits 54
SEVEN: Plutonium: A Secret Discovery 65
EIGHT: The Manhattan Project 86
NINE: Scaling Up a Billion Times 104
TEN: Reflections on the Bomb 118
ELEVEN: Rearranging the Table of Elements 125
TWELVE: Back to the Rad Lab 131
THIRTEEN: The H-Bomb and Oppenheimer 138
FOURTEEN: Big Prizes: Children, Elements, and a Nobel 147
FIFTEEN: A Chancellor's Three Challenges 158
SIXTEEN: Kennedy's Call: A Move to Washington 180
SEVENTEEN: LBJ: A President and a Friend 199
EIGHTEEN: Troubles with Nixon-and a Look Inside the AEC 212
NINETEEN: Nuclear Power: Its Past and Future 239
TWENTY: A Professor Again 252
Epilogue, by Eric Seaborg 293
Acknowledgments 297
Photo Credits 299
Index 301.

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Includes index.

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Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
327.1/74/092, B
Library of Congress
QD22.S436 A3 2001, QD22.S436A3 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 312 p., [24] p. of plates :
Number of pages
312

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OL6789437M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0374299919
LCCN
00049522
OCLC/WorldCat
45129156
Library Thing
604558
Goodreads
2019027

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