Sentences with phrase «old cyclotron»

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.

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Built of wire and sealing wax in 1930 by a 29 - year - old physicist named Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, as it came to be called, had an accelerating chamber measuring just 4 inches across — about the size of a saucer.

The concept of an ADS is almost as old as nuclear power itself: American physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron accelerator, suggested the use of particle beams in conjunction with a reactor during the 1950s.