Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brookhaven-Christofilos system will allow the ring of magnets to be much slimmer, only 3 ft. in cross section. The ring can be made larger in diameter without using too much material. Though it will produce protons with ten times as much energy as those from the cosmotron, it will need only 500 tons more steel...
...cosmotron, a "doughnut" 70 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. in cross section, needs 2,000 tons of steel for the magnets that keep its protons on circular orbits. To build a 25 bev machine on this same pattern would have required a fantastic amount of steel. Chief difficulty: the particles cannot be kept on accurate orbits, and so they must be provided with a wide (32 in. cross section) vacuum chamber. It takes massive steel magnets to fill this space with the necessary magnetic field...
...December 1952, Drs. Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of Brookhaven, Dr. M. Stanley of M.I.T. and Dr. John Blewett published a new method of focusing the protons in a chamber only 6 in. in cross section. They had been anticipated by Nicholas C. Christofilos, a U.S. citizen of Greek extraction who had been stranded in Greece during World War II and had taught himself physics from books distributed by the Germans. In 1953 he revealed that he had applied in 1950 for a U.S. patent on a "strong focusing" system much like the one developed at Brookhaven. His patent rights...
Died. Aime Felix Tschiffely, 58, Swiss-born British schoolmaster who emigrated to Argentina, won fame and fortune after he made a 10,000-mile trip on horseback from Buenos Aires to Washington, D.C. (1925-28), wrote two widely read accounts of his feat (From Southern Cross to Pole Star, Tschiffely's Ride); after an operation; in London...
...former state champion in the 1000, running for Boston Latin School. He was also co-captain of Latin's undefeated cross country team, last year...