Word: cyclotron
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...college without an orrery* was as behind the times as a modern university without a cyclotron. So, for ?229 115. 6d., the College of New Jersey bought one of the mechanical planetariums from a Philadelphia clockmaker and installed it in Nassau Hall. When it worked, students of "Natural Philosophy" watched planets on long arms circle about a 4 ft. universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated...
...scientist's brain was as good as ever. In 1948 he became nationally known as co-discoverer (with Dr. Giulio Lattes) of the man-made meson, a basic atomic particle produced by the 184-inch cyclotron at the University of California (TIME, March 15, 1948). About the same time his disease was finally diagnosed correctly as berylliosis (beryllium poisoning...
...would rather welcome them. One would point out handsome new buildings to them, and explain the workings of the cyclotron and the calculator to their families. One would tell them why some of the Yard's old trees have been felled, and why the ginger bread is missing from the Memorial Hall tower. One would be mindful the whole while that changes are relative; when weighed against all that Harvard means to its students and alumni, they hardly jiggle the scale...
...swallowing up money like quicksand. Yale is spending $798,000 for books, against $476,000 in 1939; and its scientists, like those of every other institution, have long outgrown their Bunsen burners. A sign of the times is the fact that the University of California's new cyclotron cost $95 million; only the U.S. Government has that kind of money, so the U.S. paid...
Three lots--behind Conant and Perkins Halls and the Cyclotron Building--will furnish space for the automobiles of 150 men in the Graduate Center. Graduate students living in non-University buildings must use the Western Avenues lots due to lack of space elsewhere...