Word: electronics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanford already has a linear accelerator 220 ft. long that turns out electrons with 700 million electron volts. The projected two-mile installation is expected to generate electrons with 15 billion volts at the start. Later, the scientists hope, it can be souped up to 40 billion volts. If Congress votes the money which the President wants, the accelerator should go into operation in about six years...
Members of the AEC have taken the "natural position," claimed another signer, M. Stanley Livingston, Director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. He remarked that they are "narrowly interested in doing their job well...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology; M. Stanley Livingston, director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus; and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, are among 57 individuals whose names are printed at the bottom of the petition...
According to M. Stanley Livingston, Director of the Harvard-M.I.T. joint Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the magnificent scientific achievements of the past International Geophysical Year have failed miserably in the field of international public relations. The key lesson of the world-wide experiment--that in science as in politics, trade or health, cooperation is far better than competition--went largely unnoticed in the face of the propagandistic race for satellites...
This led to the development of an extremely important modern instrument: the Cherenkov counter. It is made of some transparent substance such as Lucite. When a proton, electron or other charged particle enters it at a speed that is greater than the speed of light in the material, Cherenkov radiation is given off. Its angle (like the angle of a ship's bow wave) depends on the speed of the particle. When the angle is measured by a photomultiplier tube, the speed of the particles can be determined...