The Canadian Light Source: A Story of Scientific Collaboration

"The impact of the Canadian Light Source on Canada's domestic and international science programs, and on science in general, is well described. Bancroft also provides a most interesting discussion about the envisioned application of the Canadian Light Source to future research breakthroughs. This book will be welcomed by those readers especially interested in Canadian science and research infrastructure."

A. M. Strauss, Vanderbilt University, CHOICE

"This book will be welcomed by those readers especially interested in Canadian science and research infrastructure."

A.M. Strauss, Vanderbilt University, Choice

"This is the definitive history of the CLS's development from 1934–2001. It is the story of the collaboration and cooperation of scientists, engineers, beamline scientists, post-docs, graduate students, administrators at universities and Canadian scientific and industrial funding agencies, provincial and federal politicians, and the men and women whose hard work, foresight and commitment led to Canada's third-generation synchrotron radiation source."

Daryl Crozier, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University

"This book is a deeply personal tale of persistence and enormous commitment to the acquisition of a vitally important research infrastructure for Canada. It exposes, often with extraordinary candour, the sociology of the academic research world and, even more importantly, the challenges created by the lack of a structured process for decision-making and funding for large facilities in this country. A welcome, and relatively rare, contribution to Canadian science policy literature, this story underscores the critical importance of the work currently being led by Canada’s Chief Science Advisor to address the policy and structural gaps in ‘big science’ decision-making."

Janet E. Halliwell, Chair, Canadian Science Policy Council