The El Cerrito Cyclotron
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066099
Cerrito in Spanish means “little hill,” and in our El Cerrito High School sitting on a knoll, four senior students in the spring of 1947 were successful in constructing a magnetic resonance accelerator for ions, the highly complex machine for smashing and radioactivating atoms more commonly known as a cyclotron.
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Benjamin V. Siegel, Chairman of Science Department, El Cerrito High School.
Richard C. Sinnott, Student, University of California, Berkeley.
