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Fermilab

physics, the frontier, and the rise of megascience

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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, History, Particle accelerators, Particles (Nuclear physics), Research, Particles (nuclear physics), Nuclear physics, research

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Table of 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, 1982-1989
Epilogue: light on the horizon, 1989-1995
Authors' statements and other acknowledgements
Appendix: Fermilab experiments 1970-1990.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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539.7/30973
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QC789.2.U62 .F474 2008, QC789.2.U62 F474 2008, QC789.2.U62.F474

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p. cm.
Number of pages
497

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2008006254
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192045754
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7924151
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