I. I. Rabi and the birth of CERN

Physics Today

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 44-48

  Krige, John ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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ATOMIC PHYSICS; COAL; DATA ACQUISITION; GRAPHITE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; STEEL;

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (BNL); EUROPEAN PHYSICS; HYDROGEN BOMB; UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION;

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EID: 4544311456     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1809091     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. A fine biography is J. S. Eigden, Rabi: Scientist and Citizen, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA (2000).
2. See, for example, D. Pestre, in A. Hermann, J. Krige, D. Pestre, U. Mersits, eds., History of CERN, vol. 1, North-Holland, Amsterdam (1987) chaps. 2-6; J. Krige, D. Festre, in P. Galison, B. Hevly, eds., Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research, Stanford U. Press, Stanford, CA (1992), p. 78; L. Kowarski, Bull. At. Sci. 11, 354 (1955).
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