Word: cyclotron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pieces of the Gargantuan magnet for the new cyclotron arrived in Cambridge yesterday, nuclear research at the University took a seven-league-booted stride...
Assembling the magnet, core of the atom smasher, will take nearly a month, but the University will not be the scene of nuclear disintegration until late next year, when University experts will finally begin work. Plans for the cyclotron have been afeet for almost two years and construction began 18 months...
...University of California's 184-inch cyclotron...
...slammed through a foot of lead, losing only half its strength. The physicists found that the beam was made up of high energy neutrons (nuclear particles with no electric charge). The neutrons were debris left over when speeding deuterons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen) hit a target inside the cyclotron...
...while the California scientists played like small boys with their dangerous new toy. The neutron beam smashed almost any atom. It cooked up any number of radioactive isotopes. But there was more than fun & games afoot. The monstrous cyclotron was on the trail of something important...