Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia cyclotron (called affectionately a "pie factory") is arranged to generate a beam of pi mesons, which turn quickly into mu mesons. Using mu mesons to test parity had often been discussed, but had seemed too difficult. This time Dr. Lederman and Associate Richard L. Garwin had a new idea. Working at top speed with Graduate Research Assistant Marcel Weinrich, they set up an extremely simple experiment. In the path of the mu mesons streaming from the cyclotron, they placed a block of carbon about 6-in. square and 1-in. thick with a coil of wire wound around...
...blinking lights, clicking radiation counters, and black and white checkers to signify protons and neutrons. Seaborg uses them to demonstrate the manipulation of highly radioactive substance. In one film, for example, he extemporizes while a mechanical arm juts out from a wall, picks up a flashlight and directs a beam into a vat of boiling fluid. Another arm lifts a bottle of deadly radioactive fluid and pours a tiny but lethal amount into a test tube. A third mops the floor. Some of the shows deal with historic events in the young life of nuclear physics: in one, the University...
...blaze, which occurred in Ramsey's molecular beam laboratory, started when a small welding generator overheated in "the normal course of operation." Ramsey has borrowed another generator, and expects no interruption in his work...
Fortunately for both Hollister and Fisher, they were standing directly underneath the elevator's one cross-beam, which saved them from being crushed by the debris. "We were really pretty lucky," Hollister admits...
...beam of light can be transmitted along a glass tube, why not transmit detailed images along the same path? The problem has steadily resisted the best efforts of optical researchers. But now the University of Rochester's Indian-born Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, 30, has succeeded by applying a technique he refers to as "fiber optics." With his new method, said Dr. Kapany last week, he has already designed a glass "gastroscope" which can be snaked down the throat for a detailed closeup view of the human stomach...