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Up from nothing : the Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory / Sam M. Austin ; foreword by Lou Anna K. Simon (President, Michigan State University).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austin, Sam M., 1933- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Michigan State University. Cyclotron Laboratory.
- Michigan State University.
- Cyclotrons--Michigan--East Lansing.
- Cyclotrons.
- Michigan--East Lansing.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 298 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory
- Place of Publication:
- [East Lansing, Michigan] : Michigan State University, [2015]
- Contents:
- Foreword
- About the author
- Glossary
- Chapter 1. FRIB: the improbable adventure
- Chapter 2. The opportunity and the will
- Chapter 3. The MSU physics strategy, 1955-62
- Chapter 4. Building the cyclotron laboratory, 1963-65
- Chapter 5. Cyclotron laboratory research
- Chapter 6. The K50 era, 1965-79
- Chapter 7. The K50: its golden years, 1970-79
- Chapter 8. Beginning of the superconducting era
- Chapter 9. The midwestern collaboration
- Chapter 10. The NSAC process and phase II
- Chapter 11. Making it all work
- Chapter 12. The K500 experimental program
- Chapter 13. The phase II project
- Chapter 14. The next step: coupled cyclotrons again
- Chapter 15. The next big thing
- Chapter 16. The RIA/FRIB competition: Argonne and NSCL/MSU
- Chapter 17. Looking back: building upon increasing strength
- Chapter 18. Looking forward: What's in it for us
- the nation and society?
- Appendices
- Notes
- Notes on sources
- Thanks and appreciation.
- Notes:
- Cover illustration of the K1200 cyclotron interior.
- Designed and typeset by Charlie Sharp, Sharp Designs, Lansing, MI.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293).
- Local Notes:
- Perfect bound.
- ISBN:
- 9780996725217
- 0996725210
- 9780996725200
- 0996725202
- OCLC:
- 924713080
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