Word: electrons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This summary of the activity of the academic year 1961-62 began with an account of the new Cambridge Electron Accelerator, symbol of a scientific age. The University's involvement in science, in research and in the upper reaches of graduate and professional education will grow and strengthen in the years ahead--strengthen, deepen and lead on to increasingly intense specialization...
...Following is the conclusion to President Pusey's report on the University for 1961-62. Earlier in his report, Pusey noted the beginning of operation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the organization of the new computing center, and the gaining of the halfway mark in the million Program for Harvard as noteworthy events during this year...
There is the further relevant consideration that if one is today to be active at all in the sciences, almost astronomical sums are required for modern laboratories and for the enormously expensive equipment which technological advance has made available to them. For example, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator itself, which is of interest as a research tool to only a very few members of our Physics Department, cost $12 million to build and will cost between $4 million and 5 million a year to operate. Funds of this magnitude are quite beyond the power of any university department to provide...
...probing the mysteries of the relationship between viruses and human cancer may be tackling the most difficult job in all of medicine. It would be tough enough if their task involved whole viruses, most of which can not be seen and can be photographed only with the electron microscope. But cancer research must make even more minute explorations inside viruses; it must chart the behavior of molecules in a no man's land between the living and the nonliving...
...powdered uranium oxide, sealed the mixture in a capsule and stuck the capsule in a nuclear reactor at Livermore Laboratory. When neutrons from the reactor hit uranium atoms in the capsule, they caused the atoms to fission, or split. The atomic fragments shot apart with enormous energy (200 million electron volts per fission), splintering ammonia molecules and knocking them in every direction. The fragments recombined at once. Some formed gaseous hydrogen (H2) or nitrogen (N2). But about half the ammonia that reacted formed the much-desired hydrazine (N2H4...