Title Adventures in the atomic age : from Watts to Washington / Glenn T. Seaborg with Eric Seaborg

Edition First edition Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

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Description viii, 312 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Contents Machine generated contents note: ONE: A Michigan Boyhood 3 -- Two: California Here We Come 9 -- THREE: A Free Education 17 -- FOUR: Graduate School Wonderland 23 -- FIVE: Apprentice to a Master Chemist 41 -- SIX: The Atom Splits 54 -- SEVEN: Plutonium: A Secret Discovery 65 -- EIGHT: The Manhattan Project 86 -- NINE: Scaling Up a Billion Times 104 -- TEN: Reflections on the Bomb 118 -- ELEVEN: Rearranging the Table of Elements 125 -- TWELVE: Back to the Rad Lab 131 -- THIRTEEN: The H-Bomb and Oppenheimer 138 -- FOURTEEN: Big Prizes: Children, Elements, and a Nobel 147 -- FIFTEEN: A Chancellor's Three Challenges 158 -- SIXTEEN: Kennedy's Call: A Move to Washington 180 -- SEVENTEEN: LBJ: A President and a Friend 199 -- EIGHTEEN: Troubles with Nixon-and a Look Inside the AEC 212 -- NINETEEN: Nuclear Power: Its Past and Future 239 -- TWENTY: A Professor Again 252 -- Epilogue, by Eric Seaborg 293 -- Acknowledgments 297 -- Photo Credits 299 -- Index 301 Notes Includes index Subject Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999. Science and state -- United States. Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- United States. Science consultants -- United States -- Biography. Chemists -- United States -- Biography. Nuclear physics -- Research. Nuclear physicists -- United States -- Biography. Nuclear physics -- History. Genre/Form Autobiographies. Author Seaborg, Eric, 1954- LC no. 00049522 ISBN 0374299919

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