"ATOM SMASHER"
KU physicists, Ralph W. Krone and Francis W. Prosser Jr., work on the three million electron volt Van de Graaff electro-static accelerator. They are key members of a research team which has $340,000 in contracts from the Atomic Energy Commission to study the nuclei of atoms. The accelerator hurls sub-atomic particles at the nucleus of an atom and provides data from which the scientists can learn what has happened to the nucleus.
KU photojournalism department to expand
An increase in space and equipment and a new instructor will bring major changes in photography this year.
"I would also like to develop a major sequence in photojournalism and within six years I hope to get accreditation in photojournalism from the AEJ
These changes, according to Bill Seymour, new instructor in photojournalism, are keeping in step with the current revolution in newspaper photography.
SEYMOUR INTENDS to raise the academic level of photography by adding one or two new courses in the spring term.
"We have many photographers who just take a picture, but we need more photojournalists," he said. "A photojournalist makes a statement with a photo as a reporter makes a statement with words. Eventually, newspapers will have to hire photo editors—men who are photographers and newsmen at the same time. I want to have the best photography school in the country here at KU."
(American Council for Education in Journalism)." The only school presently accredited in this area is the University of Missouri.
The School's photography laboratories will take over the basement of Flint Hall when the new printing building is completed in September 1968. This will afford students three times the space they now have.
HOUSED IN the expanded facilities will be the new equipment: seven enlargers, eight cameras, ten light meters, four electronic light units and one print drier. These purchases were made possible by a $2,000 grant from the William Allen White Foundation.
An increased budget will enable the hiring of lab assistants. Previously this work was done by advanced students.
Summer Kansan
Tuesday, July 25, 1967
Oread physicists examine atomic nucleus structure
What holds the atomic nucleus together?
A group of KU physicists are trying to find out, and the Atomic Energy Commission is providing the means to seek the answers. In the past six months the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at the University of Kansas has received contracts totaling $340,000 from the AEC, bringing to more than $11/4 million the total support for nuclear physics received from the AEC in the past eight years.
Part of the grant, $155,000, will provide equipment for data acquisition and analysis during experiments on the 3 million-electron-volt Van de Graaff accelerator. The remainder, $185,000, will provide support for another year of research into the forces that hold the nucleus together.
THE FORCE KU's nuclear physicists are investigating, is the strongest presently known to man. It is the force which holds neutrons and protons together to form the nucleus, and only these and other sub-atomic particles, striking the nucleus at speeds approaching that of light, can be used to study this force.
When one of these particles collides with a nucleus, one or more of a number of events may take place. It may bounce off in a new direction like a billiard ball hitting another. It may cause the nucleus to emit gamma rays or high energy X-rays. Or it may be caught by the nucleus to form a new, radio-active nucleus.
The particles used in the investigations at KU-protons, deuterons and helium ions are accelerated to the necessary high speeds by a 3 MeV Van de Graaff electrostatic accelerator, also provided by the AEC three years ago.
By determining which of these happen in experiments using different particles, different speeds, and different nuclei, KU physicists obtain information about the nuclear force. The new equipment provided by the AEC funds will aid them by gathering more complete information from each
Goldhammer have joined the University in the past three years.
Assisting in the research are three post-doctoral fellows: Richard S. Cox, Peter M. Cockburn, and Meena Varma. Varma is from Gaya, India.
experiment and by analyzing it while the experiment progresses.
Also working on nuclear structure physics, in the pursuit of advanced degrees, are 12 graduate students, an increase of one-third this year.
WORKING ON nuclear structure physics are Ralph W. Krone, professor of physics; Francis W. Prosser, associate professor of physics, and Richard W. West, assistant professor of physics. Working with them are John P. Davidson, professor of physics, and Paul Goldhammer, professor of physics. Davidson, West and
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