Some vast new provinces may soon be added to the occupied territories of science. Last week, at the centennial celebration of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School (see EDUCATION), two Nobel Prizewinners described exciting discoveries.
The Secret of Matter. Nobel Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence, father of cyclotrons, told of the feats of his latest (4,000 ton) baby. The most important: it had uncovered evidence that might explain the mysterious "binding force" which keeps all matter from flying apart.
When the great new "synchrocyclotron" at the University of California was first turned on last fall, a powerful...
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