Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

by Michael A. Hiltzik

Book Overview

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went "big," built the bombs that helped win World War II, and became dependent on government and industry--and the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence. Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially. Machines have become larger, ambitions bolder. The first particle accelerator cost less than one hundred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451675755
• ISBN13: 9781451675757
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"