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Borrowing most of the equipment, the three young experimenters found a sufficiently large magnet in a wooden shed behind Lyman Laboratory and set to work--during nights, Sundays, every spare moment. Unknowingly they were working against time, for 3,000 miles away Bloch was constructing a similar experiment...
Their technique consists, essentially, of placing a substance containing the atoms they wish to study inside the core of a high frequency coil, which in turn is placed in the field of a strong magnet. When oscillations corresponding to the resonance frequency of the nuclei are fed into the coil, the magnetic activities of the nuclei are amplified and can be easily recorded...
...week CERN decided to build its center near Geneva. Feature of the place will be a new kind of cosmotron (a super-powerful particle accelerator) made possible by a theory recently developed by scientists at Brookhaven (N.Y.) National Laboratory. The new machine's principal part, a doughnut-shaped magnet, will be 600 ft. in diameter, ten times the diameter of Brookhaven's 3 billion-volt cosmotron, the largest now in operation...
Close the Eyes. There are lively descriptions of the early Vanderbilt Cup races, in 1904, 1905 and 1910, which were denounced from the pulpit but drew crowds like a magnet: "Louis Chevrolet wrapped his Fiat around a telegraph pole on Willis Avenue . . . Harold Stone, driving a Columbia, leapt the Meadowbrook bridge and shot into the mob, killing his mechanic and injuring a mixed bag of bystanders...
Theseus in the last analysis isn't much of a mouse. The explanation for his smart behavior lies in the relays, which move him around by means of a motor-driven magnet. They remember all his successful moves. So when he makes his second trip, the relays whisk him without an error along the correct path...