Word: volts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million-volt betatron installed last summer at the University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago has already proved to be a valuable instrument in the treatment of cancer. The first patient treated with it (TIME, Sept. 5) was Fordyce Hotchkiss, 72, a retired Railway Express employee who had an egg-sized cancer of the larynx. Last week Hotchkiss was thin and nervous, but his cancer was pronounced "healed...
...leaping before an oncoming train at the Harvard Square station shortly before 10 a.m., Beatty struck the 550-volt third rail and then slumped on the tracks. The motorman succeeded in stopping the train just as the wheels of the first car brushed the student's legs...
Nearly 100 scientists and educators gathered at the Nuclear Laboratory last Wednesday to examine Harvard's new 125,000,000 volt synchro-cyclotron and to hear speakers at its official opening...
...hospital is the first unit in the $8,500,000 cancer center which will be completed in 1951. The second unit will be the Atomic Energy Commission's Argonne Cancer Research Hospital. Also under construction are a $2,200,000 synchrocyclotron and a 400-million electron-volt cyclotron in the new Accelerator Building. The complete project will be the first university center devoted exclusively to the study of cancer...
Fifteen years ago, Yale Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr and New York University Gynecologist Louis Langman began to experiment with electrical tests for cancer. They had Yale Physicist Cecil T. Lane build a special microvoltmeter, which measures electrical potentials in microvolts (one-millionth of a volt). Last week, Researchers Burr and Langman announced preliminary results in diagnosing* cancer of the female genital tract...