True genius : the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of
Shurkin, Joel N. (, 1938-)
True genius : the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of / Joel N. Shurkin - Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books , 2017 - 308 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
The tinkerers -- Fermi -- The super -- Garwin's design -- Garwin, Lederman, and the Marx Brothers -- IBM & LampLight -- Advising presidents-or not -- JASONS -- Vietnam and McNamara's Wall -- Super sonic transport -- Offense -- The great gap -- Treaty -- Star wars -- Gravity -- Health, pandemics -- Far out -- Rumpled -- Decline of influence.
The first biography of Richard Garwin, a physicist whose work has had wide-ranging impacts on modern life from well-known technical innovations to progress in nuclear disarmament.
English.
9781633882232
Garwin, Richard L.
Physicists---United States----Biography
QC16.G38 / S58 2017
92 GAR
True genius : the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of / Joel N. Shurkin - Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books , 2017 - 308 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
The tinkerers -- Fermi -- The super -- Garwin's design -- Garwin, Lederman, and the Marx Brothers -- IBM & LampLight -- Advising presidents-or not -- JASONS -- Vietnam and McNamara's Wall -- Super sonic transport -- Offense -- The great gap -- Treaty -- Star wars -- Gravity -- Health, pandemics -- Far out -- Rumpled -- Decline of influence.
The first biography of Richard Garwin, a physicist whose work has had wide-ranging impacts on modern life from well-known technical innovations to progress in nuclear disarmament.
English.
9781633882232
Garwin, Richard L.
Physicists---United States----Biography
QC16.G38 / S58 2017
92 GAR
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