Quenched! The ISABELLE saga, II

Physics in Perspective

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 404-452

  Crease, Robert ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associated Universities, Inc.; Big science; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Colliding Beam Accelerator; Fermilab; George Vineyard; High energy physics; ISABELLE; James Sanford; Leon Lederman; Nicholas Samios; Robert Palmer; Superconducting Super Collider

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646180811     PISSN: 14226944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00016-005-0247-1     Document Type: Review

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48. Ibid., May 14, 1981.
49. Ibid.
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