True genius : the life and work of Richard Garwin, the most influential scientist you've never heard of / Joel N. Shurkin

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books , 2017Description: 308 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781633882232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 92 GAR 
LOC classification:
  • QC16.G38 S58 2017
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles 92 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 017116

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.

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