Loads of shit in the basement in the chemistry department, physics dept. etc. There's quite a few lead sarcophagus that we've labelled no go ha.
The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
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Re: The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
#12As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(
I can't say the history was well-known even generally in the Liverpool department when I was a student, knowing Mike Houlden, and Arthur James, and John Holt less well. I was at least somewhat aware of it, though. I gather the unit of data-taking was the suitcase full of paper tape, but I don't know how that was analyzed.
Re: The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
#13Wild. I grew up in Liverpool and studied Comp Sci there in the mid-1990s, and remember one of the buildings named after Chadwick. But I had lost interested in physics after my A-level, so I can't remember if this was mentioned or if I knew about it.
The Chadwick building is on a different site, if that's not clear, like. Shame on losing interest in Physics!
Re: The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
#14Loads of shit in the basement in the chemistry department, physics dept. etc. There's quite a few lead sarcophagus that we've labelled no go ha.
I don't remember a basement in the Oliver Lodge building, but I don't think there was much highly active after the tandem went, other than small short-lived sources made in the Universities research reactor.
Re: The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
#15Wild. I grew up in Liverpool and studied Comp Sci there in the mid-1990s, and remember one of the buildings named after Chadwick. But I had lost interested in physics after my A-level, so I can't remember if this was mentioned or if I knew about it.
The Chadwick building is on a different site, if that's not clear, like. Shame on losing interest in Physics!
Chadwick Tower is where the Computer Science department was based at the time, so I was in there most days. It's pretty much opposite the Cathedral in question, with unobstructed line of sight. Building 207 on this map: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/files/docs/maps/liverpool-univer...
I still use physics as I'm a game developer, it's just that I stopped studying it actively, and instead focused on my computer science degree. Not to worry, I've done OK!
Re: The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
#16What a wonderfully composed article that balanced telling of the science involved within the social political and economic context (for this lay person at least). The transfer of technologies and academics further westward reminds me a bit of “How the Irish Saved Civilization’s” thesis regarding certain monasteries preservation of knowledge during the post-Roman period of Western Europe. A pity for Ireland that it wa…
Wow, some people really can't stomach the idea of the Arabs and Persians saving Europe, do they?
No, the title and book focus on Ireland’s role but that does not in any way diminish the contributions of others. The relationship of Moors in Iberia and Seljuks in Anatolia was more adversarial however.