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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after seven centuries, his plea has been answered. Ever since medical science and surgery began keeping house together, they have inherited one bonanza after another from rich uncles to whom they did not know they were related: nuclear physics, polymer chemistry, rheology (flow of liquids), gas dynamics, cybernetics, electron microscopy. Out of a rich harvest of intelligence from the physical and biological sciences, surgeons have learned how to use heart-lung machines, artificial kidneys, X-ray cameras to take pictures inside the heart-a whole host of machines that could never have been made...
Minor legal haggling continues to delay the signing of a final contract with the Atomic Energy Commission for the $5 million needed to operate the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president, said yesterday...
Back in the 19305 when the nuclear era began, the building blocks of matter seemed simple enough. There were neutrons and protons nestled in the nucleus of the atom, electrons spinning around it, and photons to carry electromagnetic radiation. That seemed to be it. Then, after the big bomb-building breakthrough and the construction of billion-electron volt accelerators, scientists discovered a chaotic array of new particles. Some were so short-lived that their age was measured in less than a billionth of a second, their very existence inferred from the erratic tracks they left in bubble and cloud chambers...
...owns the land on which the CEA stands. And only Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are actually empowered to operate the facility. In all probability, the main reason the AEC backed down from its original rigid demands is that it feared the spectacle of a $12 million electron accelerator standing idle in Cambridge...
...unclassified, but unhappily, the present CEA contract has many loopholes which could permit the Federal government to tighten its controls over the accelerator at some future time. Wiggins stresses that if the AEC should ever attempt to impose intolerable controls, Harvard will stop operating the accelerator. But by then electron research could be so dependent on Federal funds that it may be almost impossible to turn down the yearly operating grant from...