Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MIRIAM C. MALOY Berkeley, Calif...
...coat pocket, took a train to Oakland, and wandered along sidewalks until he found a car with the ignition key in the lock. He got in, drove away, stole a different set of license plates and put them on the stolen car. Then he drove to the South Berkeley branch of the Bank of America...
...service men checked every culvert and every bridge over which the 18-car presidential special would pass. Presidential Ghostwriters Clark Clifford and Sam Rosenman jotted down ideas for scores of impromptu back-platform talks, sketching in the drafts of the President's five major speeches (Chicago, Omaha, Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles...
...biggest cyclotron will be radically new in design. Its magnet will be a massive hollow ring with a vacuum chamber inside it. Driven by subtly timed electrical pushes, atomic particles will circle faster & faster around the chamber until their speed comes close to the speed of light. Berkeley scientists calculate that when a proton has circled around the chamber something over a million times, it will have six billion electron volts of energy...
This figure (6 BEV) has a thrilling, musical ring to the ears of nuclear physicists. The 184-inch cyclotron at Berkeley generates only about 350 MEV (million electron volts). With this comparatively puny force, it creates mesons, the mysterious particles knocked out of matter by cosmic rays from space. The new cyclotron will give its protons so much energy that they will act like the "primary" cosmic rays themselves, which slam through the earth's atmosphere and plunge deep into the ground. These wild invaders from space have never before been caged in laboratories. No one can guess what...