Word: cyclotron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davis, a University of Illinois English professor, tries to weave the story of the A-bomb around the friendship and eventual falling out of America's two most influential wartime scientists-Ernest Lawrence, who won a Nobel Prize for his invention of the cyclotron, and Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who headed the team of scientists that developed the bomb. The literary device does not quite work. Oppenheimer, after death as in life, dominates the scene; he provides the point, but Lawrence does not emerge as a man big enough to supply the counterpoint. Still...
...techniques that enabled Lawrence to build the first of the big atom smashers, Lawrence failed to mention Livingston in his patent application and generally avoided crediting him for his work. When Livingston complained, Lawrence coldly suggested that if he felt dissatisfied he was free to drop out of the cyclotron project...
With characteristic optimism and consummate salesmanship, Lawrence raised funds and began building a 100 million-volt cyclotron in 1940, despite warnings by theoretical physicists that complex relativistic considerations would make it unworkable. World War II halted the project and saved Lawrence from great embarrassment. But the postwar years brought another. Putting his prestige and influence in Washington to work, Lawrence overcame the objections of other scientists and won approval for the construction of a monstrous proton accelerator for converting nonfissionable uranium 238 into fission able plutonium, which could be used in nuclear weapons. This time, after three years and huge...
...Cyclotron Laboratory employees are taking a University-wide collection for the orphaned five-year-old daughter of a lab worker, Mrs. Lois Byers, killed April 28. Contributions may be sent to Hiawatha Brown, supervisor, Cyclotron Laboratory, 44 Oxford...
...from 4% to its present 41% in December 1965. George Mitchell, 63, onetime director of finance for the State of Illinois, holds that the Fed may need a whole new set of monetary weapons to deal with tomorrow's checkless society, which will be managed by "a monetary cyclotron built from a network of computers...