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Oak Ridge National Laboratory : The First Fifty Years by Leland Johnson (1994, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press

ISBN-100870498541

ISBN-139780870498541

eBay Product ID (ePID)402430

Product Key Features

Book TitleOak Ridge National Laboratory : the First Fifty Years

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, History, Physics / General, Physics / Nuclear

Publication Year1994

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Science, History

AuthorLeland Johnson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN94-007667

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal621.042/0720768/73

SynopsisInaugurated fifty years ago as a key component in the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory remains one of the nation's premier research institutions. This profusely illustrated volume, written for a non-scientific readership, chronicles the history of the laboratory from its origins to the present day. Leland Johnson and Daniel Schaffer begin their narrative in 1943 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built ORNL in the hills of East Tennessee to produce plutonium for atomic weapons. After World War II, ORNL became a center for fundamental scientific research under the successive management of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Department of Energy. Since 1945, the laboratory's contributions to national defense have been balanced by its investigations in many other areas, including nuclear medicine and environmental research. As the authors demonstrate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory represents the concerns of the American scientific establishment in microcosm. The facility was part of the flourishing of big science that began in the 1940s, and the workings of ORNL clearly illustrate the ties between scientific research and military concerns that continued well into the post-World War II era. Now that the Cold War is over, the laboratory's activities have embarked in directions that reveal the nation's new priorities in science, the environment, and technology. Thus this book, by offering a window into the past and present activity at Oak Ridge, allows the reader to glimpse the larger trends within the scientific community.

LC Classification NumberQC789.2.U62O257 1994