Photo: Four-inch copper-encased cyclotron, one of Ernest Lawrence's ealiest models When Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) got his PhD in physics, the hottest topic was bombarding the atom's nucleus ...

The beam being fired into your body isn’t big. Its precision can be measured in millimeters. The machine that’s generating it is hidden somewhere in this building behind walls of concrete that are up ...

A man inspects a cyclotron's magnet frame under construction at Columbia University's Nevis Lab, Irvington, New York, 1947.Fritz Goro—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images In the world of technology, what ...

Four years ago a promising young physicist from the University of California, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, left his sunny campus and the ramshackle old building in which he was working, traveled eastward ...

But this $4 million machine, hidden behind 2.5m thick walls and buried 20m underground to guard against errant radiation, is set to transform lives. The particle accelerator at the South Australian ...

From 1936 to 2008, Columbia University housed a physics legend: an early cyclotron. Columbia s cyclotron was one of the first machines to split the atom, confirming reports from Europe that such a ...

DELRAY BEACH — A $50 million cancer center and a machine that targets tumors with unique precision are the latest additions at Delray Medical Center. South Florida Proton Therapy Institute, the first ...

It was a dark and stormy night when we ventured into the tunnels under Pupin to see the cyclotron. After running from security, climbing over air ducts, and following clues scrawled on the tunnel ...