WONDERS IN THE BACK ROOM
"HE cyclotron above is in the nuclear physics section of Cambridge University’s famed Cavendish Laboratory — once directed by New Zealand’s Lord Rutherford-which is described by commentators in a new BBC programme entifled Scientific Research, Listeners are taken to the observation shelter of al high tension set in the nuclear. physics section;
they hear how the electron microscope ‘ls being used in. bacteriological research; and are taken to the field station where radio astronomy, the newest science to be developed at the laboratory, is providing information on activity in outer space, The Cavendish Laboratory has a ‘close connection with radio, for it was Maxwell, the foundation director, who first worked out
mathematically a comprehensive theory of radio waves. Scientific Kesearch is being heard this week irom 4xC (at 6.1 p.m. on April 22), and from 4YA (at 2.0 p.m. on April 26). It will be broadcast later from other National stations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 17
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155WONDERS IN THE BACK ROOM New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 17
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