A man inspects a cyclotron's magnet frame under construction at Columbia University's Nevis Lab, Irvington, New York, 1947.Fritz Goro—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images In the world of technology, what ...

From 1936 to 2008, Columbia University housed a physics legend: an early cyclotron. Columbia s cyclotron was one of the first machines to split the atom, confirming reports from Europe that such a ...

It was a dark and stormy night when we ventured into the tunnels under Pupin to see the cyclotron. After running from security, climbing over air ducts, and following clues scrawled on the tunnel ...

One morning this month, George Hamawy, Columbia University’s director of radiation safety, stood before a group of students crowded into a basement laboratory and delivered a eulogy for one of the ...