THE BATTALION
Thursday, December 7, 1967
Page 4 College Station, Texas
A&M Lauded
For Cyclotron
Achievements
Texas A&M’s boldness in build
ing a cyclotron sets an example
for other universities seeking ex
cellence in science and graduate
education, noted Glenn T. Sea-
borg, Atomic Enerby Commission
chairman.
“Here on the Texas plains you
have assembled in a very short
time a scientific staff and facility
that can make Texas A&M a
major center of learning in one
of the most sophisticated and in
triguing frontiers of science and
advanced study,” he added in
ceremonies dedicating the new $6
million cyclotron.
Dr. Seaborg took the occasion
to announced a grant of $250,000
from the AEC for procurement of
a magnetic spectograph to be
used with the cyclotron. The new
device will enable highly precise
determinations of the properties
of nuclear particular produced by
the big machine.
JOINING in the dedication
ceremonies was Dr. Willard F.
Libby, 1960 Nobel Prize winner
in chemistry.
More than 100 scientists, gov
ernment officials and educators
attended the ceremonies in the
Cyclotron Institute on A&M’s
campus.
The group was welcomed by
L. F. Peterson, president of the
Board of Directors of The Texas
A&M University System; A&M
President Earl Rudder and Dr.
Andrew D. Suttle Jr., vice presi
dent for research and director of
the Cyclotron Institute.
Dr. Seaborg predicted “a vig
orous and imaginative research
and graduate program with this
facility can expand the intellec
tual resources of the Southwest,
give indirect support to future
technological development in Tex
as, and make an important con
tribution to the nation.
“THROUGH YOUR daring,
imagination and determination,
you have accomplished what
many have thought, with reason,
was impossible,” he claimed.
Dr. Libby, direction,! of the Insti
tute of Gedphysicsrabd-: Planetary
Physics at the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles, spoke on
“The Contribution of Nuclear
Science to Chemistry.” Dr. Libby
is the discoverer of the process of
determining age of organic ma
terials by measuring Carbon-14.
Dr. Livingston, associate direc
tor of the National Accelerator
Laboratory near Chicago, gave
a historical lecture on “Ernest
Lawrence and the Cyclotron.” He
was associated with the late Dr.
Lawrence during development of
the first cyclotron in 1931.
ALSO participating in the
dedication was W. T. Doherty,
vice president of the Board of
Trustees of the Robert A. Welch
Foundation which advanced $1
million toward the cost of the
A&M cyclotron. The AEC sup
plied $3 million and the State of
Texas $2 million in funding the
research device.
Texas A&M’s cyclotron is con
sidered to be one of the most
versatile of the third-generation
machines which have evolved
from the original device built by
Lawrence and Livingston.
With a magnet weighing 300
tons and a particle acceleration
chamber 88 inches in diameter,
the machine can whirl the tiny
nuclei of atoms to a number of
different speeds.
IT CAN accelerate protons—a
basic part of the core of an atom
—to any energy from six to 60
million electron volts and can
push alpha particles to 130 mil
lion electron volts. While there
are accelerators which achieve
energies in the billions of electron
volts, the A&M machine is de
signed for the medium energy
range where a great number of
questions about the structure of
nuclei remain unanswered.
The cyclotron will be used in
physical, biological, chemical and
medical research.
The machine is the latest of a
series of major nuclear research
installations at the university.
Others include a swimming pool
type nuclear reactor soon to be
powered up to a million watts in
energy, a training reactor, a
cobalt source which may be the
most powerful for its size on any
campus, and an expensive labora
tory dealing wtih activation
analysis.
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