HUGE MACHINE TO SPLIT ATOMS
CONSTRUCTION AT BIRMINGHAM
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LONDON. July 7. The largest atom-splitting machine In Europe, and the second largest in the world, is now in test use at Birmingham University, after being under construction for seven years. Professor P. B. Moon, professor of physics at the university, announced tonight.
Its construction was started in 1946 by Professor Marcus Oliphant, Professor Moon’s Australian-born predecessor, who left Birmingham in 1950 to become director of physical research at the Australian National University.
Several members of the research team are Australians.
Professor Moon says that the machine will be used for research in nuclear physics, but not energy in connexion with the atomic bomb. "The results are available to all, and the only thing we shall not be able to tell others is what we do not know ourseves,” he added.
The cost of construction of the new synchrotron was £250,000, most of which was provided by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Studies for the early desian were assisted, however, by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27088, 10 July 1953, Page 6
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