Historical photographs of the Radiation Lab at Berkeley from 1935 to the 1960s at the National Archives. Some examples: 60-inch cyclotron (1939) 184-inch cyclotron (1946) E. O. Lawrence at the 184-inch cyclotron controls (1948)
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Norris Bradbury
Norris Bradbury was a professor of physics at Stanford University who did research on ion mobility and atmospheric ion physics. He worked on the Manhattan Project and was Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1945 to 1970.
Mass Spectrometry on Pintarest
Mass Spectrometry on Pintarest, the photo-sharing social media website.
International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2009
Alpha and Beta Calutrons
Contemporary photographs of alpha and beta Calutrons at Oak Ridge.
Blog this Article
The on-line Journal of Chemical Physics has a “Blog this Article” button, for example: Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of molecular beams: NO, I2, benzene, and butadiene J. Chem. Phys. 71, pp. 1359-1371 (1979) http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/71/1359/1
Mass Spectrometry Wikiality
Along with Wikipedia’s mass spectrometry entry, which has risen to become the number one Google hit for mass spectrometry, there are a few other noteworthy Wikimedia projects: mass spectrometry photos and diagrams in Wikimedia Commons, mass spectrometry defined in Wictionary, and mass spectrometry section in a Wikibooks selection on proteomics.
Nier’s Mass Spectrograph
Several photos of the 1940 Nier Mass Spectrograph are online at the National Museum of American History. Alfred Nier built this instrument to separate 235U from 238U and test the prediction that the former undergoes fission (via).
C&E News MS Cover Story
Chemical & Engineering News has a cover story on the International Mass Spectrometry Conference last month in Prague.
Calutron Operator’s Story
The Calutron operator in the right foreground of the famous photograph tells her story.
Mass Spec Photos
Some more mass spectrometry photos showed up on Flickr.
Mass Spectrometry or Poetry? Why not Both?
An article in the Arizona Republic (signin required) has a report on Glendale Community College organic chemistry students writing poetry to help them deal with complex topics such as mass spectrometry and photochemical oxidation. How about haiku? It’s short and perhaps easier to write than a sonnet or epic poem about mass spectrometry. For example, …
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