| Description |
xi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-469) and index. |
| 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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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- History.
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Particle accelerators -- Research.
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Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Research.
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| Added Author |
Kolb, Adrienne W.
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Westfall, Catherine.
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| ISBN |
9780226346236 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226346234 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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