Sentences with phrase «university cyclotron»

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«The greatest city on earth, a great jiving funkapolitan melting - pot... And that's why we lead in all those creative and cultural sectors and that's why we have the best universities, because the best minds from across the world are meeting in some of the best pubs and bars and nightclubs like subatomic particles colliding in a cyclotron.»

At the edge of this new frontier, Wilson's professor and mentor at the University of California, Berkeley, Ernest O. Lawrence, invented the first crude cyclotron from shards of glass, wires and wax.

Michael Thoennessen, a professor and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NCSL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing believes that mentors can help young scientists by modeling the costs and rewards of persistence.

At the end of a visit to the University of California at Berkeley in the 1930s, Segre took back to Sicily with him a few bits of an old cyclotron, no longer needed, that had been exposed to radiation during the lifetime of the machine.

TRIUMF — the acronym is derived from TRI-University Meson Facility, although eight are now universities involved in the project — employs about 350 scientists, engineers, and technicians and houses up to 200 visiting scientists on any given day when the cyclotron is operating.

In a paper published in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics and the College of Education used an MSU program as a case study for why these programs are key to training tomorrow's generation of scientists.

From the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (M.M.M., A.M.O.), the Impaired Consciousness Study Group, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge (M.R.C.), and the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.D.P.)-- all in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege (A.V., M.B., S.L.), and the Departments of Neurology (S.L., M.B.) and Neuroradiology (L.T.), University Hospital of Liege, Liege; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (A.V., S.L., M.B.)-- all in Belgium.

Following a stint in the Air Force, I was approached by a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis named Michel Ter - Pogossian, who pioneered the use of short - lived radioactive cyclotron - produced isotopes in biology and medicine, which to most people was completely novel.