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Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific efforts has grown exponentially. Machines have become bigger, ambitions bolder. The first particle accelerator cost a lower amount than $100 and could be placed in its creator's palm while its descendant, the top Hadron Collider, cost $10 billion and is 17 a long way in circumference. Researchers have developed nuclear weaponry, put a man on the moon, and reviewed characteristics at the subatomic scale - all through Big Technology, the industrial-scale research paid for by governments and corporations that have driven the great scientific projects of our time. The beginning of Big Technology can be followed to Berkeley, California, nearly nine decades in the past, when a resourceful young scientist with a ability for physics and an even greater talent for campaign pondered his new invention and announced, "I'll be famous!" Ernest Orlando Lawrence's cyclotron would revolutionize nuclear physics, but that was only the beginning of its impact. It could change our knowledge of the basic blocks of nature. It could help gain World War II. Its effect would be thought in academia and international politics. It had been the beginning of Big Technology. This is actually the incredible report of how one invention changed the entire world and of the man principally responsible for it all. Michael Hiltzik tells the riveting full report here for the very first time.
