Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider

by Adrienne W. Kolb, Lillian Hoddeson, Michael Riordan

Book Overview

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 decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas--the largest basic-science project ever...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022629479X
• ISBN13: 9780226294797
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"