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Shield

MAR 01, 1949
Physics Today

One and a half tons of the lead plates used over fifty years ago in printing the first issues of the Physical Review, then published at Cornell University, have been turned over to the University’s Laboratory of Nuclear Studies where they will become part of the shielding for high‐energy radiation equipment.

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