Word: edlefsen
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Breaks." Lawrence conceived the basic idea of the cyclotron in 1929 when he read a paper by an obscure German on the behavior of ions in a magnetic field. Next year he and three co-workers -Niels Edlefsen, M. Stanley Livingston and David Sloan-built the first cyclotron with a tank six inches across and a small magnet. It worked, but Lawrence pined for a bigger magnet...
When the fire burned out, five barns had burned to the ground. Damages were about $40,000. Said Boise's Mayor J. L. Edlefsen: "I fail to see ... what the department could have done." Said Fire Chief W. E. Foster: "It was as hard for our firemen as anyone else to watch those animals burn to death...
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