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Synchrotron for Smithsonian

DEC 01, 1966
Physics Today

The world’s first high‐energy synchrotron is being moved from the University of California campus at Berkeley to the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Science and Technology in Washington, D.C., where it will form an exhibit in the new Hall of Nuclear Science. The machine, which first operated in 1948, has been shut down since 1960.

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