Accelerators

A new annex to the recently completed physics laboratory at Duke University in Durham, N. C. is currently being constructed to house a four million volt nuclear accelerator of the Van de Graaff type which is being provided to implement a program of nuclear research to be carried out at Duke under contract with the Atomic Energy Commission. The generator cost (approximately $500,000) will be borne by the AEC, while the University will finance the new building; both will participate in the cost of the research project, which is expected to extend over a period of years. The Duke project will be administered by Walter M. Nielsen, chairman of the physics department, and Henry Newson will serve as project leader. Other Duke physicists participating in the program will be Lothar W. Nordheim, Eugene Greuling, and Harold W. Lewis. Delivery of the accelerator, which is now under construction, is expected before the end of the year.