Contents
Foreword
About the Author
Glossary
Chapter 1. FRIB: The Improbable Adventure
Chapter 2. The Opportunity and the Will
Chapter 3. The MSU Physics Strategy, 1955–62
Chapter 4. Building the Cyclotron Laboratory, 1963–65
Chapter 5. Cyclotron Laboratory Research
Chapter 6. The K50 Era, 1965–79
Chapter 7. The K50: Its Golden Years, 1970–79
Chapter 8. Beginning of the Superconducting Era
Chapter 9. The Midwestern Collaboration
Chapter 10. The NSAC Process and Phase II
Chapter 11. Making It All Work
Chapter 12. The K500 Experimental Program
Chapter 13. The Phase II Project
Chapter 14. The Next Step: Coupled Cyclotrons Again
Chapter 15. The Next Big Thing
Chapter 16. The RIA/FRIB Competition: Argonne and NSCL/MSU
Chapter 17. Looking Back: Building upon Increasing Strength
Chapter 18. Looking Forward: What’s in It for Us—The Nation and Society?
Supplement. Behind-the-Scenes Views of the Cyclotron Laboratory
Appendices
Notes
Notes on Sources
Thanks and Appreciation