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...confusion, Kuppermann and Chemist John White have taken an impressive step toward making chemistry exact and predictable: they have made the first direct measurement of the minimum energy required to cause one of the simplest chemical reactions known to science. An absolute minimum of one-third of an electron volt is needed, they discovered, to split a hydrogen molecule into two hydrogen atoms and to combine one of them with a deuterium atom to form deuterium hydride. An addition of any less energy and the reaction will not occur...
Another of the new ventures is the processing of experimental data while the experiment is still in progress. This is being tried on a high energy physics experiment at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Each of four CEA scientists has a small computer in his laboratory a little way up Oxford St., and these are tied in with the IBM 360/50 at the Center. The small machines gather data from the experiment, and pass it on to the larger computer where it is processed. The results are instantaneously fed back to the small machines to be displayed to the scientists...
After three years of disappointment, the staff of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator is close to winning funds for what could be the most significant physics research ever done there...
...designs were attempts to produce the raw materials of the study -- the photographed tracks of thousands of collisions between two moving particles, an electron and an positron. Normal accelerator experiments send one particle into a stationary target...
...Cambridge Electron Accelerator's experimental hall, scarred by an explosion six months ago, will re-open to Harvard and M.I.T. physicists in February...