Word: cyclotron
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Other significant discoveries include a method of long-distance telecasting by which microwaves are bounced against the ionosphere and reflected, extending the range of transmission. Discoveries about the structure of the atom made with M.I.T.'s cyclotron and synchrotron have important applications in medical and X-ray research...
...moved his family (one son, one daughter) to the University of Rochester, took over the university's physics department, swiftly rose to be dean of the faculty. He produced the world's fourth cyclotron, led in the discovery of the p-n reactions. When World War II broke out in Europe, Lee DuBridge was one of the foremost scientists in the country. Then, one day in 1940, he received a mysterious summons to take over a special wartime job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...cyclotron which requires two buildings to house it appears as a complex body of magnets, vacuum tubes, and wires. It is used to supply radio-activity for experiments, and is powerful enough to generate a hundred million electron volts...
...question of safety in the laboratory arose as the temporary repair job left wires hanging in the transformer room. Dr. William M. Preston, Director of the Cyclotron Laboratory, refused to give a definite statement on the present safety conditions...
...Naval Office of Research which finances the cyclotron project at the University, seemed unconcerned about the temporary breakdown, and Navy official Lt. Cmdr. P. G. Conwell told Preston that the Navy Department was sorry it happened. The cost of the repair will come out of the Laboratory's $25,000 monthly budget...