ISBN:
0870498533
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XV, 270 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Ausgabe:
1. ed.
DDC:
621.042/0720768/73
Schlagwort(e):
Oak Ridge National Laboratory History
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
;
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
;
Geschichte
;
Physical laboratories History
;
Research institutes History
;
Geschichte
;
Kernphysik
;
USA
;
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Kernphysik
;
Geschichte
Kurzfassung:
Inaugurated 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
Kurzfassung:
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
Kurzfassung:
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
