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Adventures in the atomic age: from Watts to Washington
2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st ed.
0374299919 9780374299910
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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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