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Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I (Medicine and Society)

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Growing up in the Oakland, California area afforded me many acquaintances among people connected with the "Rad Lab", now known as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This book is a detailed but readable history of that institution as it grew and matured under the leadership of Ernest O. Lawrence. Nuclear science and experimentation is perhaps the 20th Century's most significant accomplishment. Nuclear weapons could destroy the world... Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging is a medical miracle... The story of the unique culture bred by a diverse group of explorers is well told in this book.