Records, 1949-1970.

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Records, 1949-1970.

Proposals, technical notes, reports, correspondence, specifications, reprints and photos; materials relating to the Atomic Energy Commission; materials on the Rochester Conferences on Ultrahigh Energy Accelerators (1952, 1955, 1956, 1960); plus other conferences and organizations.

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California Institute of Technology. Synchrotron Laboratory.

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The synchrotron was a new type of electron accelerator, succeeding the cyclotron by extending its voltage range. The Caltech Synchrotron, at one-billion volts (1 BeV), was the most powerful machine of its type ever built. Professor Robert L. Walker was in charge of the design, construction and eventual operation. In preliminary use in 1950; modified to increase energy level to 1.5 BeV by 1961. Operation ended in February 1970. From the description of Records, 1949-1970. (Unknown). Wo...

Rochester Conference on Ultrahigh Energy Accelerators, 1955.

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Rochester Conference on Ultrahigh Energy Accelerators, 1952.

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Rochester Conference on Ultrahigh Energy Accelerators, 1956.

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Rochester Conference on Ultrahigh Energy Accelerators, 1960.

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