Word: franckenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopefully, the photographs were fed into "Franckenstein," a machine developed by Lab Mechanic Jack Franck, which automatically measured the curvature, angle and length of the star's lines and recorded the data on a punched card. Then Professor Arthur H. Rosenfeld fed the cards into a digital computer set up to search for stars that suggested the presence of an invisible intermediate particle. Only 93 of the 2,500 stars showed the computer what it was looking for. Carefully reexamined, the stars proved that when an antiproton hits a proton, it sometimes creates five mesons-two positive pions...
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