Word: cyclotron
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...effectively, few are the cases (less than 20%) in which it could be 100% effective no matter what their skill. Moreover, high-voltage X-rays have increasingly replaced radium for use on cancers located in parts of the body accessible to X-ray tubes. And the cyclotron has created a very serious rival, since other minerals can be made radioactive artificially...
Smashing and Quietude. Meanwhile around the speechmakers, the big university was going about its manifold chores without much rhetoric and with obvious Americanism. In a special building California's $1,150,000 atom-smashing cyclotron was harnessed to the militarily secret imagination of Nobel Prizeman Ernest Orlando Lawrence. The Signal Corps invaders of the Agricultural College at Davis had not disturbed the quiet of university researchers. They had just discovered, for instance, that of each sugar-beet seed's five segments, only one need be planted-thus avoiding the wearisome labor of thinning...
...Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1939), University of California physicist, pioneer in atom smashing, father of the cyclotron...
University Cyclotron Committee: Baldwin R. Curtis, John J. Livingood and Roger W. Hickman, for a monocyclic network for supplying constant current to the cyclotron radio frequency power supply...
...Atom-smashing research has now become secret at the University of California-including further developments of the half-built 4,900-ton cyclotron...