Word: cyclotrons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tritium is produced when great solar explosions cause hydrogen and helium to combine at energies of over a million electron volts. The effect can be duplicated on earth with a cyclotron...
Neck & Neck. When Robert Sproul took over in 1929, he gave the faculty the best of academic prizes: prestige. Sproul raised cash for young Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence to build the first cyclotron, and Berkeley was suddenly the nucleonics hotspot of the world. Uplifted by its physics stars, the faculty began raiding other faculties across the country. Cal now has eight Nobel prizewinners (seven at Berkeley, including the chancellor, Chemist Glenn Seaborg) and more Guggenheims than any other U.S. university (1960 crop...
...Russia that must provide the heavy machinery without which China cannot pretend to be a great power. Since 1950, the Russians have delivered to China an estimated $4 billion in credits, including 291 industrial projects. They have given China a small experimental nuclear reactor and a cyclotron-but no atomic weapons. The Russians provide all China's jet aircraft, much of its heavy military gear. Nearly all of China's aviation fuel is still brought by rail from the Soviet Union, creating a strategic dependence on Moscow for a prime material...
Citation: "You are described as a life-long allegro, a nest of atoms in a cyclotron, a leaky electric eel, a Mickey Mantle of music (three years ago, that was), a human gyroscope, Presley of the podium, our musical Dick Tracy...