Word: cyclotron
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Fifty girls from a physics class at Smith College will descend on Harvard today to inspect the University's cyclotron. They will be in Cambridge for the day, accompanied by their physics professor, and will also visit M.I.T. briefly...
William M. Preston, director of the cyclotron laboratories, will be host to the Smith students...
Addressing a group of science writers visiting Boston under the sponsorship of the American Cancer Society, Sweet and Brownell disclosed that surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital are using a "positron," an atomic particle emitted from material made radio-active in the M.I.T. cyclotron, to detect and locate brain tumors...
...studies of the aurora borealis in Alaska to measurements of the velocity of light in California" and the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain. Its fellowship programs have been a gigantic "gamble on talent" that have included such excellent bets as Enrico Fermi, Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Ralph Bunche, Historian Arnold Toynbee (for a future book on international relations), Lord Beveridge, scores of young writers, hundreds of refugee scholars-even Dr. Kinsey...
...scientists dissolved a little ferrous sulphate and carbon dioxide in pure water, enclosed it in a specially designed glass cell, and exposed it to a high-energy helium ion beam from a cyclotron. Analysis showed that a little of the carbon dioxide combined with water to produce formic acid and formaldehyde. Scientists have long known that solutions of formaldehyde sometimes turn into sugar...