Word: cyclotronic
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...University celebrates the opening of the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory at 44 Oxford St. Harvard built the first such machine in 1937, but the federal government drafted it during World War II. It was taken apart and shipped to Los Alamos, N.M., in 1943, for service in designing the first atomic bombs. After the war, the government never gave back the cyclotron, so Harvard received funds from the Office of Naval Research to build a new one, completed in 1949. From then until 1967, physicists from many parts of the world used the machine to increase knowledge about the nature...
...addition, the house he constructed for hisfamily--now in the shadow of Cyclotron Laboratorynear Oxford Street--is owned by Harvard and stillcarries the name Palfrey House...
...addition, the house he constructed for his family--now in the shadow of Cyclotron Laboratory near Oxford Street--is owned by Harvard and still carries the name Palfrey House...
...American physicist Ernest Lawrence dreams up the cyclotron, the first atom smasher...
Responding to America's fear of communism inthe late '40s and the emerging threat of nuclearwar with the Soviet Union, the University equippedits nuclear laboratory with a new cyclotron and"atom smasher...