Word: cyclotron
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Over the last three decades the cyclotron has been used to treat nearly 9,000 cancer patients, sent over from hospitals that lacked a comparable device...
...cyclotron generates a focused proton beam. In atomic research, the beam ne them in detail. In medicine, the same beam is useful in treatment of eye, neck, prostate and several other cancers...
...despite this medical work, the outdated and underused cyclotron faced a dearth of funding. With no scientists interested in conducting physics research at Harvard’s cyclotron, the physicists who had worked with the machine since the late 1940s held a goodbye party to mark what they thought would be its final days...
Andreas M. Koehler thought the cyclotron’s future lay in the cancer work doctors had been doing there for several years. He proposed that the physics department would continue funding the cyclotron but that Harvard would be repaid with money from the cancer treatments...
These days, the small cement cyclotron building is still being used to treat patients. And, though retired, Koehler still comes in every day just to be around the machine he helped to preserve for decades...