Word: alvarez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference in Kiev, Russia. Physicist Luis Alvarez of the University of California last week held up a strange photograph that looked a little like a nonobjective drawing. It was in fact a picture of one of nature's innermost secrets. Made possible by use of California's new 6-ft. liquid hydrogen bubble chamber (TIME, July 13), it showed for the first time the birth, death and after effects of an anti-lambda particle...
...protons from a cyclotron) are shot into the ether at the right moment, lines of bubbles form on their trails, thus showing where the particles go and how they interact with atoms in the ether. When Inventor Glaser delivered his classic paper at a Washington physics convention. Physicist Luis Alvarez, associate director of the Radiation Lab, was not in the audience. He was at the White House delivering a strobo-scopic gadget he had invented to improve President Eisenhower's golf game. But Alvarez knew about the Glaser paper, and had plans for improvements. The best liquid...
...Alvarez' first model was all glass and only 2 in. in diameter. When it worked, he gradually increased his chambers to 2 in., 4 in., 10 in., and each step multiplied the difficulties until the laboratory blossomed with safety devices. Yet the 10 in. chamber spotted tricks of Bevatron particles that might have been missed by years of work with more primitive instruments-and only whetted Alvarez' desire for more...
Mechanized Dinosaur. With the promise of $2,000,000 from the Atomic Energy Commission, Alvarez and his team went to work on a chamber 6 ft. long. The difficulties became fantastic. The electromagnet surrounding the chamber had to weigh 200 tons. The great machine had to be movable, but wheels were too unstable. Instead, it was given four massive feet on which it could be walked around like a mechanical dinosaur. Leak detectors were installed everywhere to watch for escaping hydrogen; 104 alarm circuits inside the machine flash lights, ring bells and honk horns at the slightest hint of trouble...
...cast struggled energetically with their parts, but except for Arthur Papas' amusing role, everyone grew wearisome quickly. Alvarez Bulos, as the king, had some difficulties with lines, but otherwise was deft and urbane. As his daughter, O'Brien Nicholas looked and sang as prettily as usual. Betsy Peterson Spiro, as the first wife, brought off her torch song effectively, complete with sultry advances toward Master Perkins, who was lucky enough to be in the first row. Harvey White and Mai Brigitta Milk handled the Eunuch "without an operation" and the "paradox" as cleanly as possible. Mr. Rinzler, except...