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...than the world's biggest X-ray machine. It can out-radiate all the extracted radium supplies on earth-and its further abilities have scarcely been explored. While U.S. scientists speculated upon the discoveries the device might lead to, they welcomed to their front ranks its brilliant young inventor, Donald William Kerst, 30, who calls the machine a "betatron." The cyclotron, whose invention won a Nobel Prize for University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, hurls positively charged particles, the nuclei of atoms. But the betatron hurls the negatively charged particles which spin about the nuclei of atoms...
...heart of the betatron," explains Inventor Kerst, "is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube between the poles of a large electromagnet" (see cut). Inside the tube, a hot filament gives off electrons. Magnetically guided, each electron circles about the tube 400,000 times, accelerated at each rotation by small 70-volt kicks whose cumulative push gives the particle an energy of 20,000,000 volts within a fraction of a second. These fiercely energized electrons are then either: 1) Released continuously from the tube as a beam of beta rays-whence the betatron's name-which...
...Inventor Kerst first learned his physics at the University of Wisconsin, then taught at the University of Illinois, where last year he built his first small betatron - a 2,300,000-volt table-top model. He saw at once that similar machines capable of imparting energies of 100,000,000 volts, and even higher, could readily be built...
Fritz Hansgirg was the inventor of the Permanente process (TIME, March 3), and his arrest caused Permanente inconvenience. But he was only one of a staff of 180 technicians, consultants, engineers. Production, said Permanente Owner Henry J. Kaiser, would go on. But, he added, "we feel that it is important that Dr. Hansgirg's status be promptly developed. . . ." Fritz Hansgirg had built Hansgirg-process plants in Austria and Korea before coming to the U.S. in 1940. After making his patents available to Henry Kaiser, he helped to plan the West Coast concern. An Austrian citizen, he was high...
...York, they snared Antoine Gazda, Austrian-born inventor, who holds the U.S. rights to Switzerland's Oerlikon cannon, now being manufactured in Providence for the U.S. Navy. At Roosevelt Field Inn on Long Island, county police arrested Baroness Lisette von Kapri, a civilian flyer, born in Rumania, who for the past year has been friendly with student pilots at Roosevelt Field. In Alexandria, Va., the prize was pink-cheeked Kurt Sell, Washington correspondent for Germany's official DNB news agency...