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...prize for Physics was awarded to a U. S. scientist who has long been due for it-jovial, 38-year-old Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California. About a decade ago Lawrence invented the cyclotron, most efficient and powerful of atom-smashing devices, which spirals atomic bullets up to tremendous speeds by repeated electrical pushes. With his 85-ton cyclotron Lawrence and his numerous co-workers have created scores of artificially radioactive substances, including common salt, and have even created a few atoms of gold. He now has a 225-ton cyclotron and is planning an even bigger...
...Tons? Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the jovial University of California physicist who invented the cyclotron (spiral atom-smasher), recently completed a new 220-ton cyclotron, so far the world's biggest, most powerful. Last week he gave a progress report on this monster in operation. With a power input of only 50 kilowatts (more than enough to run a good-sized radio station), he and his crew have obtained beams of 16-million-volt heavy hydrogen particles and 32-million-volt helium particles. With the 32-million-volt beam, new radioactive substances throwing off electrified helium gas have been discovered...
Every now & then some pseudo-scientific jack-in-the-box pops up with an alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
...week declared Dr. William Charles White of the National Institute of Health addressing the National Tuberculosis Association in Boston. The hiding gangster he spoke of was the tuberculosis bacillus. Dr. White announced that a grant had been made to study the bacillus under the new world's biggest "cyclotron" or atom-smashing machine at the University of California, which weighs 225 tons and has just produced a record-breaking beam of 19,000,000-volt particles. By stuffing the bacillus with radioactive phosphorus produced in cyclotron bombardments, the California researchers will ry to make it give off a continuing...
...cyclotron is a type of atom-smasher which speeds atomic projectiles up to enormous energies by whirling them in magnetic fields. When the University of California's smart, jovial Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented it about a decade ago, it was used for the purest sort of research in experimental physics. Three years ago the cyclotron switched from pure science to practical science when it was discovered that beams of neutrons produced by the cyclotron destroyed cancer cells in mice. A regular program of medical cyclotron work was set afoot, in charge of the inventor's brother...