BCS set out to design and build high-performance cyclotrons, establishing expertise in cyclotrons ranging from 1 MeV to 70 MeV and beyond. Its vision was to advance global healthcare by delivering ...

Photo: Four-inch copper-encased cyclotron, one of Ernest Lawrence's ealiest models When Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) got his PhD in physics, the hottest topic was bombarding the atom's nucleus ...

The UAB Cyclotron Facility enables a broad scope of research and cutting-edge patient care through initiatives ranging from nuclear science for novel isotope production to developing and supplying ...

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 ...

The controls are to the left and the cyclotron is to the right with shields closed. View Slideshow Albert Swank Jr., a 55-year-old civil engineer in Anchorage, Alaska, is a man with a mission. He ...

In 1967, one of the world’s oldest particle accelerators, built in the 1930s, was sent from the University of Rochester, USA to be housed at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Invented by American nuclear ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are using the 88-Inch Cyclotron to help steady the famous periodic table of elements one atom at a time where it's gone a ...

Amateur cyclotron builders are dedicated, tenacious, and obsessed. Another thing they have in common: The experience changes their lives. If the only thing amateur car builders needed was a ride to ...

Cyclotrons have fundamentally transformed nuclear medicine and cancer therapy over the past decade, with major milestones driven by Best ABT, Best Cyclotron Systems (BCS) and TeamBest Global (TBG), un ...