Up from Nothing: The Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory - Couverture souple

Austin, Sam M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996725210 ISBN 13 : 9780996725217

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Up from Nothing is the story of the Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory and its growth from the appointment of a single individual in 1958 to when the university earned the right to build the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) in 2008. The cyclotron laboratory at MSU has been known for years as the best university nuclear physics laboratory in the United States, and perhaps in the world. But very few, even in its hometown of East Lansing, know how it achieved that status or why it prospered when laboratories at many other famous universities faded. In this book Austin, a nuclear physicist who has been at the laboratory since the beginning of its ascent, gives us a remarkable story. It begins with an exceptional individual, Henry Blosser, who founded the laboratory, built a cyclotron accelerator of uniquely high precision, and recruited a team of nuclear physicists that used it to establish the laboratory’s reputation. Its credibility led to a sequence of accelerators, each operating in a different sub?eld while continuing a tradition of forefront science, and to a laboratory culture that fostered the courage and foresight to compete for the FRIB in the face of daunting odds.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sam M. Austin is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996725210
• ISBN 13: 9780996725217
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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