Word: cyclotronic
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Last week Columbia University told about its meson beams, a powerful new tool that the physicists are using to explore the atom's sub-basement of mystery. Columbia's monster cyclotron starts with protons (positively charged nuclear particles), and whirls them around in a spiral path in a vacuum chamber 14 ft. in diameter. When they reach the outside spiral, they are moving at 140,000 miles per second (more than, seven-tenths of the speed of light), and carry 385 million electron volts of energy. At the peak of their speed and power, the protons...
Unseen Searchlight. Columbia's cyclotron yielded its first meson beam about a year ago, when Dr. Eugene T. Booth (now working on a secret Government project) was in charge of the great machine. Since then, the meson beam has played like an unseen searchlight around the flank of the cyclotron, lighting up dark corners of atomic physics. The mass of the quick-vanishing pi meson has been measured accurately, as well as its "spin," which is something like rotation. Dr. James Rainwater, the present boss of the cyclotron, is finding out what happens when mesons hit protons, neutrons...
...receive any kind of color television that has been proposed so far, including both the CBS and RCA systems; 2) receive ordinary black & white broadcasts; 3) switch itself automatically from one system to another. The tube's inventor: Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, who built the first model in his Berkeley (Calif.) workshop...
Since the Laboratory was dedicated, no new particles have been found there, nor have there been any other sensations which newspapers could enthuse over. It is the technical journals which have benefitted the most among periodicals. A slew of papers has appeared, based on facts gleaned from the Harvard cyclotron. In a quite way this machine has been of great value in exploring the atom's nucleus and expanding what knowledge scientists have on that subject...
...hundred yards down the street from the cyclotron another Physics project is underway. Percy W. Bridgman '04, Higgens University Professor has succeeded in creating pressures of 1,470,000 pounds or 100,000 atmospheres, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize...