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"This is the story of two genuine scientific heroes. For forty years, John Bahcall and Ray Davis were engaged in a single extraordinary experiment - to find out why the Sun shines. In the end they would triumph. Davis would win the Nobel Prize and, thanks to their work, a whole new theory about how the universe is put together may have to be created"--Publisher Featuring the massive underground facilities used to measure neutrino influx, including...

An account of the race to build history's most destructive weapon to date.

The story of the beginnings of modern atomic science, from the picturesque experiments of William Crookes and others in the 1880s to the first speculations of Rutherford on the structures of the atomic nucleus after the First World War.

"The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy would create tiny black holes that could destroy the earth." "By smashing together particles smaller than atoms, the LHC recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the...

"From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics to community concerns over radiation leaks, Brookhaven National Laboratory's ups and downs track the changing fortunes of "big science" in the United States since World War II. But Brookhaven is also unique; it was the first major national laboratory built specifically for basic civilian research. In Making Physics, Robert P. Crease brings to life the people, the instruments, the science, and the politics...

Traces the history of the atom through detailed biographies of its famous and lesser-known proponets.