Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parke, Davis Virologist Wilton A. Rightsel announced that viruses capable of producing hepatitis in man had been isolated. By carefully regulating temperature, alkalinity and acidity, the researchers had managed to isolate several strains of virus, grow them in tissue culture. What is more, they were able to focus an electron microscope on the viruses, magnify them 53,000 times, and take their picture...
High Temperature. If a small, pure-fusion bomb could be built to work with out a fission detonator, theorists believe that it would send its neutrons farther than the destructive reach of its heat or blast. Starting with 14 MEV (million electron volts) of energy, the neutrons would traverse about a half-mile of air and still have enough punch to kill humans protected by several feet of earth or concrete. There would be blast and heat too, but if the N-bomb was just the right size and was exploded at just the right height above the ground...
...group, after a cursory look at the Yard, visited the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, run jointly by Harvard and M.I.T. Milton S. Livingston, CEA Director, told the newsmen about the expected projects of the Accelerator and showed them through the nearly completed underground oval and complex power station...
...same A.P.S. session when Brookhaven National Laboratory's Dr. G. Kenneth Green proudly reported that the world's biggest atom smasher, the Brookhaven alternating gradient synchrotron, was now in full-scale operation. Costing $31 million, the synchrotron can generate up to 33 or 34 billion electron volts (BEV) by boosting protons through an underground circular metal tube at fantastic speeds...
...copper conveyor belt. At intervals, an automatic device moved the copper belt a short distance, bringing the newly created atoms close to a series of silicon radiation detectors. About five times each hour the detectors signaled the capture of an alpha particle charged with 8,600,000 electron volts of energy. Nuclear theory predicts that this is just the particle that would be emitted during the disintegration of element 103. The scientists estimated its half-life as eight seconds, and they named it lawrencium, after Ernest Lawrence, founder of their laboratory...