Lawrence and His Laboratory
  Introduction
  Note on the Notes

 collapse sectionI—  El Dorado
 collapse section1—  The Ascent of the West
 •White Gold and Black
 •Spoils of War
 collapse section2—  The Roaring Twenties
 •The MIT of the South
 •The Harvard of the West
 •Lion Hunting
 collapse section3—  Depression and Its Cure
 •More Science or Less?
 •The American Way
 •A Solution
 collapse sectionII—  A Million Volts or Bust
 •1—  Some Preliminaries
 collapse section2—  High Tension
 •The Impulsive Way
 •The Old-Fashioned Way
 •The English Way
 collapse section3—  Magnum Per Parva
 •The Electrical Vortex
 •Resonance Acceleration
 •4—  Double Play
 collapse sectionIII—  Foundations of the Rad Lab
 collapse section1—  The Place
 •The View from Above
 •The View from the Ground
 collapse section2—  X Rays the Berkeley Way
 •Sloan's Tube
 •Hospitalization
 collapse section3—  The Radio and the Cyclotron
 •Going on the Air
 •Broadcasting Upon the Waters
 collapse section4—  Imported Physics
 •Disintegration at Last
 •The Deuteron and the Neutron
 •Scurrying for Position
 collapse sectionIV—  Research and Development, 1932–36
 collapse section1—  A Fruitful Error
 •A Claim
 •A Doubt
 •The Error
 •The Fruit
 collapse section2—  A Fruitful Business
 •Induced Radioactivity
 •Some Physics Fallout
 •Tracer Business
 collapse section3—  Business
 •A Corner on the Market
 •Other Players
 collapse sectionV—  Cast of Characters
 collapse section1—  Givers
 •Wild Cards
 •State
 •Foundations
 collapse section2—  Takers
 •Movers and Shakers
 •Regulation
 •Socialization
 collapse section3—  The Widening Gyre
 •Around Mecca
 •In Partibus
 collapse sectionVI—  American Cyclotronics
 collapse section1—  The Art
 •Berkeley's Poulsen Machines
 •The Crocker Cracker
 collapse section2—  Breeding at Home
 •From Physics to Physic
 •Cyclorama
 collapse sectionVII—  Technology Transfer
 •1—  An Easy Clone
 collapse section2—  Resistance
 •A Preference for High Tension
 •Hedged Bets
 collapse section3—  Reception
 •Hardware
 •Software
 collapse section4—  The New World and the Old
 •Running In
 •Running Over
 collapse sectionVIII—  New Lines
 •1—  Preview and Overview
 collapse section2—  Radiochemistry
 •Gluttony at the Periodic Table
 •Products
 •Processes
 •The Groaning Board
 collapse section3—  Radiobiology
 •Mice and Men
 •Grand Elixirs
 •Rosetta Stones
 collapse sectionIX—  Little-Team Research with Big-Time Consequences
 •1—  Nucleonics
 •2—  European Transuranics
 collapse section3—  Following up Fission
 •Back in Berkeley
 •Utopia or Armageddon
 •4—  Pioneering in Transurania
 collapse sectionX—  Between Peace and War
 collapse section1—  The He-Man Cyclotron
 •Skinning Cats
 •Skinning Fat Cats
 •Lucky Dog
 collapse section2—  New Jobs for Cyclotroneers
 •In the Ether
 •Elsewhere
 collapse section3—  New Jobs for Cyclotrons
 •Machine Work
 •Glimpses of a New Era

  Bibliography
  Plates Section 1
  Plates Section 2
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