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The El Cerrito Cyclotron

AUG 01, 1948
There are probably less than three dozen cyclotrons in the entire world. One of them was built by four high‐school boys in California.
Benjamin V. Siegel
Richard C. Sinnott

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.

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