Up from nothing : the Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory / Sam M. Austin ; foreword by Lou Anna K. Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Sam M., author.

Contributor:

Simon, Lou Anna K., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyclotrons--Michigan--East Lansing.

Cyclotrons.

Michigan State University. Cyclotron Laboratory.

Michigan State University.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 26, 2016).

ISBN:

0-9967252-2-9

OCLC:

933515879