DWARF MAGNET.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 353, 6 February 1937, Page 5

DWARF MAGNET.

Instrument For Smashing Atoms. Philadelphia, Pa. A dwarf magnet, which produces a magnetic field more powerful than any of the giant magnets now in use for the smashing of atoms, w’as described here before the closing sessions of the autumn meeting of the American. Philosophical Society, founded In 1727 by Benjamin Franklin ‘"for the promotion of useful knowledge.” The new “magnetic David,” while only 16 centimetres long and no more than 22 centimetres in diameter (about 68 niches), can develop a magnetic field nearly three times as.' powerful as the “GoliaThs” among the magnets weighing as much as 85 tuns, such as used in the famous “merry-go-round” cyclotron apparatus originally devised by Professor Ernest O. Lawrence at the University of California The new “Ja-k, the Giant Killer” in the magnetic world was designed by Professor Francis Bitter, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.