List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Preface 2. Introduction: Stating the Context PART I. The Roots of Excellence 3. Introduction 4. Rising from Ground Zero: The Beginning of the Beginning 5. The Empire of Aristotelian Reason: The Prelude to the Beginning 6. From Big History to History: The Run Up to the Beginning PART II. Grasping the Future 7. Introduction 8. Growing Healthy: Describing the Educational, Research, and Industrial Environment in which NCL Evolved 9. Ring Out the Old -- Within Reason, Ring In the New: A Modern Laboratory Arrives 10. Differing Approaches, Unbroken Leadership: The Role of Directors PART III. The Sinews of Excellence 11. Introduction 12. A Rewarding Cultural Pluralism: Basic Research, Links With Academia 13. Reflecting the Changing Face of Research: Research Areas 14 Walking Through What's to Come: The World of Industrial Research PART IV. The Bridge to Industry 15. Introduction 16. The Agony and the Ecstasy: Brush With Reality 17. Raising the Bar: On to State-of-the-Art 18. The New Wave: Adapting to Globalization PART V. The Complete Laboratory 19. Introduction 20. Technical Companion to Research: The Non-research Essentials of a Laboratory 21. Essential Technical Miscellany: What Keeps an Institution Going 22. Non-technical Miscellany: A City Within a City -- A Disappearing Facility PART VI. This and That 23. Introduction 24. Roses and Thistles, Shouts and Murmurs: Personal Opinions, Interesting Anecdotes 25. Reminiscences: Memories Matter 26. Where Dream Collides With Reality: A Reverie Afterword Bibliography Index
