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True genius : the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of / Joel N. Shurkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shurkin, Joel N., 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garwin, Richard L.
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- "The first biography of Richard Garwin, a physicist whose work has had wide-ranging impacts on modern life from well-known technical innovations to progress in nuclear disarmament"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The tinkerers
- Fermi
- The super
- Garwin's design
- Garwin, Lederman, and the Marx Brothers
- IBM & LampLight
- Advising presidents-or not
- JASONS
- Vietnam and McNamara's Wall
- Super sonic transport
- Offense
- The great gap
- Treaty
- Star wars
- Gravity
- Health, pandemics
- Far out
- Rumpled
- Decline of influence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shurkin, Joel N., 1938- author. True genius
- ISBN:
- 9781633882232
- 1633882233
- OCLC:
- 950635562
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