[Signed] An American Genius. The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence. AUTOGRAPHED EDITION. CHILDS, Herbert [LAWRENCE, Ernest Orlando] [Very Good] [Hardco

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576 pp; illustrated. Original cloth. Upper corners of covers a little bent. There is a piece of orange tape on the front flyleaf, which might cover the name of a former owner (see photo). I won't be the one to remove the tape. Very Good, in dust jacket. There is a short tear along upper rear joint of the dust jacket. The dust jacket is not price-clipped! First Edition. ""Special Autographed Copy"", with a printed slip pasted to the front panel of the dust jacket (see photo). A bookplate on the front pastedown reads: ""Presented by Edwin W. Pauley at the dedication of the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, May 20, 1968, in appreciation of your generosity in making possible this living memorial to the late Professor Ernest O. Lawrence."" THE BOOKPLATE IS SIGNED BY THE FOLLOWING TEN INDIVIDUALS: HERBERT CHILDS; MARY B. LAWRENCE; EDWIN M. MCMILLAN; LESLIE R. GROVES; EDWARD TELLER; EDWIN W. PAULEY; JOHN H. LAWRENCE; GLENN S. SEABORG; HARVEY E. WHITE; ROBERT SPROUL. Who were these individuals? Herbert Childs, author of the book; Mary B. Lawrence, wife of Ernest O. Lawrence; Edwin M. McMillan, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1951 and, from 1958-1972, Director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, as it was called in 1968 when this book was published; Leslie R. Groves, retired Lieutenant General, Army Corps of Engineers, who was named director of the Manhattan Project in 1942; Edward Teller, a nuclear physicist in the Manhattan Project, founder and director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and described on the bookplate as ""Professor of Physics-at-Large""; Edwin W. Pauley, a University of California regent from 1940-1972 (Pauley Pavilion at UCLA is named after him); John H. Lawrence, brother of Ernest O. Lawrence and a physicist who was a pioneer in nuclear medicine; Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1951, sharing the Prize with Edwin M. McMillan, and Director of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961-1971; Harvey E. White, a physicist who was appointed Director of the Lawrence Hall of Science from its inception in 1959 and was Director when it opened May 20, 1968, the occasion at this special autographed copy was presented; Robert G. Sproul, last President of the University of California Berkeley (1930-1952).