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...physics degree from Harvard and is a frequent contributor to DISCOVER magazine, talked with more than a hundred current and former Rubbia colleagues. Most of his interviews took place at Geneva's CERN laboratory, where, Taubes says, Rubbia almost single- handedly persuaded the directors to build the super proton synchrotron (SPS) accelerator used to discover the W and Z particles...
Applying nuclear physics techniques to his study of surfaces, Golovchenko will also use the high energy proton accelerator currently being constructed in Gordon McKay Laboratories. The facility is part of a joint Harvard and MIT project to construct the first physics research center of this kind in New England, Martin said...
...that it is strongly forging ahead in space exploration. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia, the Soviets launched the first in a projected series of supply missions to their new manned space station called Mir (Peace). The unmanned cargo vessel Progress 25, boosted into orbit by a workhorse Proton rocket booster, hooked up on Friday with Mir, bringing food, fuel, water and other supplies to Cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyev, whose own Soyuz T-15 spacecraft docked with the orbiting space station on March...
Borrowing two of the world's 49 remaining volumes of the Gutenberg Bible, leaves from the 36-line Bible and the Sibyllenbuch fragment, the Davis team exposed them, one at a time, to the proton beam. The results of those tests, begun in 1982, are still being evaluated, but most of the doubts about Gutenberg's role have vanished. The Davis tests established that instead of carbon-based ink, the German printer employed a slurry of copper and lead for his famous Bible. Printed characters in both of the 36-line works, the X-ray patterns showed, consisted...
Last year the Davis team persuaded Yale University, which owns the controversial Vinland map, to fly it to Davis, where it was subjected to the proton beam. The map, supposedly dating to around 1440, created a sensation when it was revealed in 1965 because it showed part of North America, labeled VINLANDA INSULA. It seemed to be the first cartographic evidence that Europeans had visited the continent before the time of Columbus. In 1974, however, some particles of ink from the map were found to be titanium-based. This meant, experts said, that the ink was of 20th century vintage...