Word: cyclotron
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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...
...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...
False Economy. Los Angeles Regent Edward Carter argued against using the regents' fund "just to balance the state budget one year," pointed out that it had financed such pioneering projects as Physicist Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron studies. Financier Norton Simon, calling on his own business experience, warned against any budgeting that reduces the quality of the product. "I wouldn't tear down the very root of what's been built," he declared. "This is the falsest kind of economy...
...group would also like to seek workman's compensation, especially in the science areas, as well as a tax-exempt status for salaries, an organizer said. She pointed to last year's cyclotron explosion, when several injured teaching fellows received no compensation...