Word: brookhaven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CERN will rule the roost in high-energy physics until the 30-Bev machine at Brookhaven National Laboratory goes into operation next year. It may be tops even then; Dutch-born Professor Cornelius Bakker, CERN's director, thinks that his machine can be revved up to Brookhaven's energy...
Nuclear reactors can be made in many ways. Some look good on paper but turn out to be impractical in actual use. In its effort to develop low-cost nuclear power, the Atomic Energy Commission has long experimented at such places as Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with new liquid reactor fuels-a low-melting alloy of U-233 and bismuth, a solution of uranyl sulfate, and others. But AEC soon discovered that the program was leading only to prohibitively expensive means of obtaining competitive electrical energy, and last week it announced a shift in emphasis: funds...
...atoms all neat round shapes, as shown in the classroom diagrams? Physicist Arthur J. Freeman of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal thinks not. Last week, at the American Physical Society meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he presented evidence from recent experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where billions of reactor-bred neutrons were fired at atoms of magnetic iron, nickel and cobalt. According to Dr. Freeman's mathematical analysis, the neutrons bounced off the atoms' electrons in patterns that indicate that the atoms have varying shapes. The nuclei of iron atoms are surrounded by a cloud of electrons...
...California advised him to read a certain mathematical book and clear up some errors. Christofilos did so, polished his theory and brought it to New York in 1953. He went straight to the Public Library, where he found that the strong focusing principle had already been developed independently by Brookhaven National Laboratory. "So you see," he says irrepressibly, "on the first day I came back to my country I found that my theories were...
...Brookhaven scientists gave Nick Christofilos a job and appreciation, but he did not stay with them long. He had ideas about the biggest problem in applied physics-how to generate controlled fusion power-and Brookhaven had no such program. In 1956 he took his scheme for a fusion reactor to the University of California, which had become acquainted with his yeasty mind eight years before...