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Seidel, Robert Wayne was born on June 9, 1945 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Wayne Herman and Harriet Anita (Day) Seidel.
( The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was t...)
The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born. Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used local and national technological, economic, and manpower resources to build the cyclotron, which enabled scientists to produce high-voltage particles without high voltages. The cyclotron brought Lawrence forcibly and permanently to the attention of leaders of international physics in Brussels at the Solvay Congress of 1933. Ever since, the Rad Lab has played a prominent part on the world stage. The book tells of the birth of nuclear chemistry and nuclear medicine in the Laboratory, the discoveries of new isotopes and the transuranic elements, the construction of the ultimate cyclotron, Lawrence's Nobel Prize, and the energy, enthusiasm, and enterprise of Laboratory staff. Two more volumes are planned to carry the story through the Second World War, the establishment of the system of national laboratories, and the loss of Berkeley's dominance of high-energy physics.
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Seidel, Robert Wayne was born on June 9, 1945 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Wayne Herman and Harriet Anita (Day) Seidel.
Bachelor, Westmar College, l967; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, l968; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, l978.
Exhibit designer Lawrence Hall Science, Berkeley, 1970-1972. Specialist Poland 4-city tour United States Information Agency, Warsaw, 1971-1972. Graduate research and teaching assistant University California, 1972-1978.
Assistant professor Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1978-1983, director research history of engineering program, 1979-1983. Research historian University California, Berkeley, 1980-1982, Laser History Project, Albany, California, 1983-1985. Administrator Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1985-1990, overview project leader, 1990-1992.
Senior staff member Center National Security Studies, 1992-1994. Director Charles Babbage Institute, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1994-1999. European Research Area Land Grant professor History of Technology University Minnesota, 1994-1999, professor chemical engineering, since 1999.
Research director Information Technology 75th History Project, since 2008.
( The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was t...)
Member New Mexico Science Center Commission, 1989-1992. Board directors The Bakken Museum, 1994-2004. Member American Association of University Professors, History Science Society, Society for History Technology.
Married Alison Publicover, August 26, 1972 (divorced 1989). 1 child, Mary Ruth; Married Christine Ruth Stack, July 1, 1993.