Atom Smasher Installed at U-M Cyclotron Building on North Campus, March 1961
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Ann Arbor News, March 15, 1961
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INSTALL ATOM SMASHER: Workers today lowered the 310-ton atom smasher core of the University's new $1,800,000, 40-million-electron-volt cyclotron into position in the partially completed $1,100,000 U-M Cyclotron Building on North Campus. Work on the cyclotron and building is being done by the Henry W. deKoning Construction Co. of Ann Arbor. When completed in 1963, it will be used for research on the nuclei of the heavier atomic elements.
Ann Arbor News, March 15, 1961
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INSTALL ATOM SMASHER: Workers today lowered the 310-ton atom smasher core of the University's new $1,800,000, 40-million-electron-volt cyclotron into position in the partially completed $1,100,000 U-M Cyclotron Building on North Campus. Work on the cyclotron and building is being done by the Henry W. deKoning Construction Co. of Ann Arbor. When completed in 1963, it will be used for research on the nuclei of the heavier atomic elements.
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1961
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March
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