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Among the other University building plans for the summer are the alternation of the new Prescott St. dorms; renovation in the Gray Herbarium to provide space for the Harvard University Press and Observatory offices; and the building of the numerous structures which will house the new electron accelerator. The latter project may not begin until the fall...
...Stanford University has begun treating selected cancer patients with its six-million-volt "cancer gun," a linear electron accelerator that scientists hope will destroy cancer growths deep inside the body with high-energy X rays. Dr. Henry S. Kaplan, head of Stanford's Radiology Department, estimates it will take five to ten years to evaluate the benefits of the accelerator. Purpose of the device is to reach and treat deep-growing cancers with less damage than is caused by X rays...
Harvard and M.I.T. announced this week that the Atomic Energy Commission is treating them jointly to a 6 billion-volt electron synchrotron, which will be built in Cambridge. Cost: $6,500,000. Its electrons will be steered around a circular vacuum chamber 236 ft. in diameter by 48 powerful magnets, each 11 ft. long, and they will be nudged to enormous speed by 16 radio-frequency circuits, each with the power of a full-scale television transmitter...
...Cambridge Electron Accelerator will not be as powerful as the proton synchrotron (25 billion to 30 billion electron volts) that is being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, but the electrons that emerge from it will be the fastest particles created by man. Since electrons are much lighter than protons (the mass of one proton equals 1,837 electrons), they must speed much faster than protons to pack the same punch...
...first official joint action by the two institutions since the war came last year when they collaborated on a plan for constructing a linear electron accelerator. Their plan has been entered in an A.E.C. contest, and if they win, Harvard and M.I.T. will construct and operate the accelerator jointly...