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- Up from Nothing: The Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory
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- 2016
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
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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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- About the Author
- pp. xi-xii
- Chapter 6. The K50 Era, 1965–79
- pp. 65-82
- Chapter 9. The Midwestern Collaboration
- pp. 97-102
- Chapter 10. The NSAC Process and Phase II
- pp. 103-108
- Chapter 11. Making It All Work
- pp. 109-120
- Chapter 12. The K500 Experimental Program
- pp. 121-132
- Chapter 13. The Phase II Project
- pp. 133-158
- Chapter 15. The Next Big Thing
- pp. 173-186
- Appendices
- pp. 257-278
- Notes on Sources
- pp. 295-296
- Thanks and Appreciation
- pp. 297-298
Additional Information
ISBN
9780996725224
Related ISBN(s)
9780996725200, 9780996725217
MARC Record
OCLC
933515879
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No