Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Double Helix, James Watson's personalized account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life, had one important side effect. It shocked many scientists into the realization that they are public figures-and fair game for biographers, critics and even gossip columnists. Last...
Davis, a University of Illinois English professor, tries to weave the story of the A-bomb around the friendship and eventual falling out of America's two most influential wartime scientists-Ernest Lawrence, who won a Nobel Prize for his invention of the cyclotron, and Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who...
Author Davis' seven years of research and some 100 interviews were not spent in vain. His book not only adds rich anecdotal material to the already familiar Oppenheimer lore, but brings alive lesser-known atomic scientists and places them in perspective.
Burned-out Beam. While paying tribute to Lawrence's inventive genius and leadership, Davis details his failings, which were considerable. Although Stanley Livingston, graduate student at Berkeley, devised two of the beam-focusing techniques that enabled Lawrence to build the first of the big atom smashers, Lawrence failed to...
Ferocious Energy. Davis, for all his attention to the others is continually drawn back to the enigmatic, mesmerizing personality of Oppenheimer. He describes a young scientist so lost in the abstractions of physics that he once drove an automobile up the courthouse steps of a Western town, a man so...