Cornell Alumni News Volume 49, Number 19 May 15, 1947 Pi Ice 25 Cents
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Rochester, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell was one of the original in- age, power, a rail connection: all the corporators of Associated Universities, Cornell each announced its plan for Inc. when it was chartered by the New essentials are there, no mean legacy the construction of a large electro- York State Board of Regents last July, for a laboratory being built in these nuclear machine, costing in every case to cooperate with the Government in times. Less than two hours from New a sizeable part of a million dollars, to the great nuclear science laboratory York City, the new laboratory on the now named Brookhaven. Professor be the basis for the newly-enlarged in- Robert F. Bacher, then Director of the old camp site is called the Brookhaven terest in fundamental nuclear research Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies National Laboratory. and training. and since appointed by President Tru- The planned program and equip- man to the Atomic Energy Commis- ment for the Laboratory are large and Supplements University Work sion, was head of the planning com- catholic: all fields related to nuclear At the same time, it was evident mittee for this Federal laboratory. that the university campuses were Professor Morrison here describes energy will be investigated, with an the Brookhaven Laboratory and its array of research facilities on a lit- neither physically nor fiscally wide program of research on the many im- erally grand scale. The money comes enough to accommodate all the large portant non-military uses of atomic from the Government of the United and costly tools of modern physics. energy. Morrison is one of the brilliant young scientists on the staff of the States as part of the sums allotted to The chain reactor on a large scale is University Laboratory of Nuclear Stud- the Atomic Energy Commission. It is hard to put in a physics building; the ies. Receiving the BS at Carnegie In- spent by a new educational corpora- new synchro-, cyclo-, and betatrons stitute of Technology in 1936, he tion, called Associated Universities, of very high energy are possible only studied at California and received the PhD in 1940. After a year as instructor Inc. The board of trustees of this with the expenditure of many mil- at University of San Francisco and two corporation is designated by the uni- lions of dollars. Universities can hardly at University of Illinois, he was ap- versities who have joined in this new meet the need; industry does not pointed senior physicist at the metal- plan: Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, want to assume the task of funda- lurgical laboratory of the Government Manhattan District at University of Johns Hopkins, MIT, Pennsylvania, mental research and advanced techni- Chicago in 1943 and the next year went Princeton, Rochester, and Yale. Each cal training. It was clear that the to Los Alamos; was the first American participating university has one ad- public welfare demanded that the scientist to visit Hiroshima after the Japanese surrender. He came to the ministrative officer and one scientist problem be taken up by the Atomic University as associate professor of to form the board, in whom all the Energy Commission. Physics last July. He was invited to powers of the corporation rest. Cor- The existing sites of the Commis- participate in the first session of the nell's representatives on the board of sion's facilities are remote; Hanford, Princeton Bicentennial Conference last September, on "The Future of Nu- trustees are Provost Arthur S. Adams Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos cannot clear Science," and spoke on the New and Professor Franklin A. Long of the satisfactorily serve the hospitals of York Herald-Tribune Forum last Oc- Department of Chemistry and Labo- New York or the research centers of tober. ratory of Nuclear Studies. Actual di- the great Eastern universities. A new Professor Morrison's story of Brook- rection of the laboratory is in the site was needed; Brookhaven is the haven merely touches upon the current hands of Dr. Philip M. Morse, now nuclear research at Cornell. This ex- answer. citing story is being reported in the on leave as professor of physics at Operations Underway Alumni News as it develops. It is well MIT. Dr. Morse is well known espe- The Laboratory at Brookhavea is summarized to date in a brochure just cially for his direction during the war a going concern. At the site have been compiled for the planning and develop- of the large Underwater Sound Labo- ment committee of the Board of Trus- assembled the hundreds of tons of tees by Raymond F.