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Physicist Dean B. Cowie, 28, was standing about two feet away from the new cyclotron at Carnegie Institution of Washington. The date was Dec. 31, 1943. Unexpectedly, the cyclotron worked on its first trial. Cowie was hit by a charge of neutrons that may have been as much as 15 million volts. In spite of three operations, he is now blind in one eye. He can barely see out of the other, but hopes it will improve after an operation...
Sure enough, the heavens opened; the rain beat down upon Kern County. Dr. Fenenga then took his bag to Berkeley and found the great cyclotron buildings drenched with welcome rain. With a solemn face, he presented the rainmaking bag, beaver tail, eagle down & all, to the University of California...
With the vacuum equipment out of the way, the main job now is building and attaching the oscillator to the cyclotron. As the protons spin around, the oscillator boosts their speed each time they pass. These successive boosts often result in velocities greater than 10,000 miles per second...
Since magnets were installed last spring, the machine can already duplicate such levitation feats as those that newsmen saw recently at the dedication of Columbia's cyclotron. But Harvard's physicists are waiting until the machine is finished before showing these stunts...
When completed next year, the cyclotron will be one of the four biggest in the world. Scientists will direct the machine's work toward the interactions of protons, neutrons, electrons, and other fundamental particles...