Photo: Four-inch copper-encased cyclotron, one of Ernest Lawrence's ealiest models When Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) got his PhD in physics, the hottest topic was bombarding the atom's nucleus ...

A man inspects a cyclotron's magnet frame under construction at Columbia University's Nevis Lab, Irvington, New York, 1947.Fritz Goro—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images In the world of technology, what ...

One morning this month, George Hamawy, Columbia University’s director of radiation safety, stood before a group of students crowded into a basement laboratory and delivered a eulogy for one of the ...

It was a dark and stormy night when we ventured into the tunnels under Pupin to see the cyclotron. After running from security, climbing over air ducts, and following clues scrawled on the tunnel ...

It's time to imagine, design, and develop a new breed of urban vehicle. Something that will minimize the human footprint, that can operate year round in any weather, and run on electricity instead of ...

A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted. A Fitbit for ...

We considered and eliminated many possible experimental artefacts as being the source of the jumps. We developed techniques to measure precisely the orbits of the simultaneously confined ions and ...

Physicist Dean B. Cowie, 28, was standing about two feet away from the new cyclotron at Carnegie Institution of Washington. The date was Dec. 31, 1943. Unexpectedly, the cyclotron worked on its first ...