Word: cyclotron
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Green diamonds, highly prized by gem fanciers, are produced from ordinary white diamonds under bombardment by atomic particles in the cyclotron, atom-smasher, Associate Professor Harry Berman, Curator of the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, reported yesterday following a series of experiments...
Professor Berman is studying crystal coloration and various supposed radio-active effects on minerals. The cyclotron permits quick laboratory duplication of the long-term effects of naturally occurring radioactive substances...
...student guide service for a general tour of the Yard, a Special Alumni Exhibit at Widener Library, and visits to the Cyclotron ("Atom-Smasher") attracted the attention of those who did not attend the classes...
During the day-long program the alumni will visit classes and laboratories, lunch in the college dining halls, see the Harvard-Yale football game replayed on the screen, and take part in an afternoon symposium. Visits to the cyclotron atom-smasher and special tours of Widener are scheduled...
...Action" (for serious fair-trippers), a summer-long demonstration by Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera of how to paint a fresco (see p. 43), performances by 60 other painters, sculptors, including Dudley Carter, who hews wooden statuary with an ax; a dummy duplicate of the University of California's cyclotron, with which button-pushing fairgoers can go through the motions of smashing atoms...