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Accelerating

JUL 01, 1950
More big machines
Physics Today

With 300 Mev synchrotons and synchrocyclotrons budding at scattered points over the Northeast and as energetic a betatron reported in Illinois, there can be little doubt that the springtime of Big Physics has arrived. Other large accelerators have been sighted as far north as Ontario and as far south as Oak Ridge, and from the far west come rumors of still greater wonders to come.

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