Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newest set-up at Berkeley, which has been operating for two months and which Dr. Lawrence described this week in Rochester, has a vacuum tank 37 in. across, hurls deuterons at 7,800,000 volts. If these are directed into a beryllium target, the beryllium belches out at least one trillion neutrons per second, possibly ten trillion...
...world radio transmission during the War. Peace came before this particular magnet could be shipped to China and ever since it had lain idle at Palo Alto. Dr. Fuller and Dr. Lawrence jumped into an automobile and roared down to Palo Alto. Soon the big magnet was installed at Berkeley...
Mass Attack. The volume of results piled up at Berkeley is impressive. Much of it consists of data on hundreds of radioactive elements created by bombarding almost all the 92 standard elements-what projectile was used, what energy, how quickly the artificial radiation subsides, what it consisted of. In altering atomic structures, Dr. Lawrence has even created a few atoms of gold, thus technically at least realizing the old dream of the alchemists. But the raw material for this transmutation was platinum, and the few gold atoms were not worth a fraction of the energy used in manufacturing them, although...
...Berkeley researchers have also created a small trace of Radium E-not a temporarily radioactive substance but actual radium. The Lawrence cyclotron technique has in the past five years come to be recognized as the most efficient atom-smashing device in the world. Eleven cyclotrons are either in operation or being built in the U. S., one in Canada, eleven in Europe and the Orient. And many of these projects are directed or staffed by men who learned their cyclotron technique as research fellows under Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley...
...neutron rays, and also the emanations from artificially radioactive substances, may turn out to be beneficial instead of harmful if artfully managed. Lately the biological and medicinal possibilities of cyclotron products have loomed increasingly large on the scientific horizon. In a malodorous room near the cyclotron chamber at Berkeley are stacks of cages containing white rats, labeled by splotches of blue, yellow or pink paint on their backs. These animals have been made cancerous by implantations of cancerous tissue. Preliminary experiments tend to show that neutron bombardments have a selective effect on cancer cells five times as strong as that...