No Lock For Knowledge

Chronicle (Levin), 4 July 1947, Page 5

No Lock For Knowledge

Received Tlnirsdav, 9.35 p.m. NEW YOHK, July 2. Foiir liigli scliool bovs, three oi wliom are aged 17 and the otlier LS. will throw a switch witliin the uext few days and tuni on tlieir own oue niillion eleetron voit cyelotron lniilt with tlieir own hands at a cost of 500 dollars, says the Ilerald Trihune's E1 Cerrilo (( 'alifornia) coi'respondent. The eyelolron is 'not a mere . model liiit a working size atoni / J sniasher which is expected to turn ^ Ji.out I'adioaetive isotopes and do all |Vlho work any cylotron can do. It is almost exactly the size of the first cyelotron lniilt in 1931 by the Universitv of Calii'ornia 's l)r. Ernest Lawrence who received for his work the Nohel prize in physics. The youths' names are Karl Zellman, Richard Sinnott, Charles W'illiam and Lee Danner. The Herald-Tribu'ne, eommenting editorially on the youths' achievenient, says: "Scliool students can make cquipinent here eapable of turning out radioactive materials. Let us be charitable and admit that Russian adults can make them in Russia. Perhaps in the near future a group of higli sehool boys will turn* out an atorp b'omb. It would be a dangerous feat but it would make even clearer the important fact that a knowledge of physics is not somethings that can be loeked up in a vault. ' '