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A Special Issue:
Celebrating Decades of Progress at Two Great Science Centers
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Twenty Years at the National Center
for Electron Microscopy
"User facility" was a new concept when pioneering
microscopist Gareth Thomas pitched the idea to Berkeley Lab's
Nobel Prize-winning scientists in the '70s. He won them over
by promising that the world's most powerful electron microscope
could make atoms visible. Today NCEM
still leads the way in imaging the very, very small. |
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Ten Years at the Advanced Light Source
The first synchrotron to specialize in extreme ultraviolet
light and soft x-rays took over the landmark site where Ernest
Lawrence built his 184-inch cyclotron. At first the ALS had
trouble keeping all its eager users happy. Today, supporting
a growing number of users in exceptional research, the ALS is
an ongoing
scientific success story. |
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Irresistible Attraction
Just two years after building the world's most powerful dipole
electromagnet, a Berkeley Lab team has built an even stronger,
16-tesla
superconducting magnet. It could lead to a new breed of
formidable yet cost-effective magnets to equip the world's leading
particle accelerators, helping scientists unlock the stubbornest
secrets of the subatomic world. |
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