Campus Projects Mark Scientific Progress Left
The Irvington Cyclotron, under construction, will be the world’s most powerful synchro cyclotron producing 390 million electron volts. The device aims to generate mesons and enable proton neutrons through collisions. Dr Hideki Yukawa, 1949 Nobel Prize winner, visits Columbia as a physics professor famed for meson discovery and its role in nuclear forces.
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Irvington
Hideki Yukawa
Columbia
Yukawa
Office of Naval Research
Atomic Energy Commission
Columbia Scientists
Pupin Laboratories
Columbia's Cancer Program Expands at Medical Center
Columbia University advances cancer work with a 2 million dollar labs addition at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Broadway and 168 Street. The new floors serve the Institute of Cancer Research and the Francis Delafield Hospital for malignant diseases opens in July with 309 beds.
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Columbia University
Cancer Research Center
Francis Delafield
Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center
Broadway
168 Street
University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
School of
National Advisory Cancer Council of
United States Public Health Service
Columbia
Vanderbilt Clinic
Medical Center
Delafield
City of
New York
Willard C. Rappleye
Columbia Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Cancer Research
Columbia Unveils World’s Largest Synchrocyclotron at Nevis
Columbia’s new synchrocyclotron at Nevis Irvington on Hudson New York began operation after over three years of work. The 2500 ton machine accelerates particles to 390 MeV and seven tenths light speed, producing mesons as predicted by Hideki Yukawa.
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Columbia
Nevis
Irvington-on-Hudson
New York
Hideki Yukawa
Prizes Honor CU Scientists for Nobel Laureates
Nobel Prize recognition highlights Columbia University figures including Dr Hideki Yukawa who won physics for meson theory and seeks nonlocal field theory to advance nuclear research. Other Columbia laureates span Butler Urey Fermi and Rabi with alumni Morgan Millikan Mueller noted for various prizes.
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Columbia
Nicholas Murray Butler
Harold C. Urey
Enrico Fermi
I. I Rabi
Thomas H. Morgan
Robert A. Millikan
Herman J. Mueller
Hudson River Canyon Extends 250 Miles Into Atlantic
Oceanographers led by Professor Maurice Ewing traced the Hudson subaqueous canyon from 120 miles to 250 miles using echo sounding during expeditions in 1948 and 1949 aboard Atlantis and Cathan. The canyon forms a continuous V shaped channel on the continental slope, averaging three miles wide with a maximum depth near 900 feet at 225 miles.
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Hudson River
Atlantic Ocean
Maurice Ewing
Columbia Geology Department
Atlantis
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
120 Mile
Ocean
Ewing
Columbia
John Northrop
Ivan Tolstoy
Bruce Heezen
DNA Identified as Carrier of Genes by New Microscope
Professor Arthur W. Pollister of Columbia reveals desoxypentose nucleic acid DNA as the gene carrier in cells. Research with a $25,000 electron microscope shows DNA amount fixed to chromosome sets and doubles before cell division with observation possible to 100000x magnification. A Columbia science committee coordinates cross department work.
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Arthur W. Pollister
Columbia
Zoology Department
Cytology Laboratories
Columbia Science Departments
Pollister
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James A. Corscaden
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Sofar
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