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Thursday, Oct. 31, 1956 University Daily Kansan
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PHYSICS—These are some of the people working with the atom smasher at KU this year. They are, from left, L. W. Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, Dean Neber, Oswego, and Cail Harris, Cunningham. All are graduate students.
Oxygen Or Plain Air? Lab Seeks Answer
Whether breathing pure oxygen helps a person recover from fatigue faster than breathing air is the problem under study by the physical education laboratory in Allen Field House.
Two years of Laboratory work has indicated there is no difference in the time it takes to breathe normally after exercise by breathing pure oxygen or air, said E. R. Elbel, professor of physical education and director of the laboratory.
"Some people have claimed that my breathing pure oxygen there can be recovery from fatigue in 5 minutes," Prof. Elbel said. "We are studying to see if persons in good condition can really recover that soon."
E. R. ELBEL
Pharmacists Offered Extension Classes
He said in tests taken with athletes results have shown that it takes about 19 minutes for recovery. He explained they were using persons above average physically and if students who did not do much exercise were used the results might be different.
He said if the indications prove true then it might be a surprise to some coaches who think breathing
The School of Pharmacy will hold extension classes for pharmacists in Lawrence on Nov. 13, Salila on Nov. 14 and Colby on Nov. 15.
Speakers for the educational classes will be Duane G. Wenzel, professor of pharmacy and Raymond E. Hopponen, associate professor of pharmacy.
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oxygen does something physically for the athlete.
Ormand explained that a subject runs five minutes on a treadmill and then breathes either pure oxygen or air through a mask. The subject is not told what he is breathing to remove the physiological effort that may enter, Ormand said.
Over 125 subjects have been used in the study since the laboratory was established. Three men work in the laboratory, Don Ormond, Lawrence graduate student; Marion Novotny, Wakeeney and Don Close, Bonner Springs, both sophomores.
Ormond said there are other limiting factors to the recovery after exercise other than the loss of oxygen. He said one theory is that redistribution of lactic acid built in the muscles during exercise must take, place so it can be used up to enable recovery from fatigue.
"In our next project we will use positive exercises in various positions and let the subject walk to see if it will help recovery from physical exercise," Ormond said.
Dr. Norman W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy; Dr. William R. Scott, associate professor of mathematics, and Dr. Henry Horak, assistant professor of astronomy, saw the rocket on the mornings of Oct. 13 and 19.
Three University professors have twice seen the rocket that sent the Russian earth satellite into orbit and is now circling the earth with "Spatnik."
Three View Rocket Twice
If you want to get into Malott Hall from the west entrance, you cannot help walking on top of the KU stem smother. It is placed in the basement of Malott, just under the entrance parch.
The rocket is larger than the satellite and more easily seen. It appeared to them "bright as a star, twinkling as the long-shaped rocket tumbled over and over."
They said it is almost impossible to spot the satellite itself because they have no record of its orbit and don't know where to look for it.
You Walk On Atom Smasher
Dr. Storer said no plans have been made to watch for the rocket or satellite.
In 1947, Dr. Worth Seagondollar associate professor of physics, together with his graduate students, started to build the atom smother for research work in old Blake Hall.
By 1950 the entirely home-assembled machine, was completed at an approximate cost of $83,880. The first piece of research work was done in 1952.
Under great difficulties, the stem smasher was moved to the new science building in 1954. The big tank, about 15 feet long, and wide enough for a man to stand in, was too large to go through any door.
So an excavation outside the west entrance had to be made and the pipe-like atom smasher was moved right through the wall. Today, Ralph Krone, associate professor, Francis Frooser, assistant professor, and four research assistants are working with the atom smasher on proton-induced nuclear reactions.
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