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Construction Sequence 4
II: Buildings and Grounds
Aerial view of the Zero Gradient Proton Synchrotron (ZGS), the $47,000,000 atom smasher under construction at Argonne National Laboratory. When completed in 1963, the device is expected to produce more fundamental nuclear particles than any other machine of its type in the world. Large experimental areas are being constructed around the doughnut-shaped accelerator in which scientists will study beams of particles deflected from the ring-magnet region. The huge mound of earth (right) will be placed on top of and around the central ring building to provide radiation shielding material when the machine is in operation.
Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Engineer District
Zero gradient synchrotrons | Particle accelerators | Nuclear physics--Instruments | Particles (Nuclear physics)
Argonne National Laboratory
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Photographic prints; 20.6 x 26.6 cm
9700 S. Cass Avenue | Argonne, Illinois
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University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
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