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...supposed to bring. The U.S. agreed to let Peking open consulates in Houston and San Francisco in exchange for American consulates in Canton and Shanghai. The U.S. also promised to sell China on credit a communications satellite system that will cost about $500 million, and a 50-billion electron-volt accelerator, used in nuclear research. This would cost up to $200 million and would be the largest such installation in China, but only one-eighth the energy of one now operating at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Finally, the two countries formally agreed to exchanges of scholars, journalists...
...impression I had of Russia, as we descended from the plane, was the quality of the metal ladder-flimsy, antique, short by half a step, and made of some queer light metal, ornately engraved. Dozens of times later, I saw similar ladders. The Russians can build a ten-billion electron-volt cyclotron, but a good simple flashlight seems beyond them. Priority goes to what counts; nobody cares if you break a leg hoisting yourself on an airplane, but to put an artificial moon in the sky is something else again...
...partner-son, Peter Steiger, were busy checking blueprints for a mammoth Steiger-designed atomic laboratory near Geneva. Commissioned by the twelve-nation European Council for Nuclear Research, the laboratory will cover 90 acres, will incorporate such new-age elements as a synchrocyclotron and a 25 billion electron-volt proton-synchrotron (TIME...
...hospital is the first unit in the $8,500,000 cancer center which will be completed in 1951. The second unit will be the Atomic Energy Commission's Argonne Cancer Research Hospital. Also under construction are a $2,200,000 synchrocyclotron and a 400-million electron-volt cyclotron in the new Accelerator Building. The complete project will be the first university center devoted exclusively to the study of cancer...
Physicists at Berkeley, said Thornton, had shot high energy (100,000,000 electron-volt) neutrons and protons through carbon and other elements. Knowing the size and number of the nuclei, they could calculate how many particles should pass through the material without hitting any nuclei. More came through than the calculations had allowed for, and with hardly any loss of energy-indicating that the nuclei are not nearly so solid as supposed. It was enough to make nonscientists nervous...