Engines Of Discovery: A Century Of Particle Accelerators (Revised And Expanded Edition) - Wilson, Edmund (Cern, Switzerland) a Sessler, Andrew (Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa)

Particle accelerators exploit every aspect of today's technology and have themselves contributed to many of the technologies. This book chronicles the development of these large accelerators and colliders, emphasizing the critical discoveries in applied physics and engineering that drive the field.