Word: cyclotron
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Harvard had previously owned a cyclotron but that particular machine had been shipped to Los Alamos in 1943 and subsequently was used in research for the Manhattan Project...
...that decade, doctors began testing the safety of radiation treatments on monkeys and by the end of the ’60s were using the cyclotron to treat cancer in human patients...
...1960s, the cyclotron was “a bit outmoded” for cutting-edge science research, says Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Richard Wilson, who in 1999 invited physicists and top University administrators to a celebration of the cyclotron’s fiftieth anniversary...
...device that replaced it marked an advance for Harvard’s physics department. The new cyclotron could handle a higher voltage, making it one of the highest-capacity machines of its kind then in existence, says Higgins Professor of Physics Norman F. Ramsey, then an assistant professor who oversaw the cyclotron’s opening...
...This one was a very well designed cyclotron,” he says. “It’s very easy to run and operate...