Construction of the Accelerator Building’s $2.2 million synchrocyclotron was completed in 1951. A kind of cyclotron, this “atom smasher” uses a magnetic field to accelerate subatomic particles to high energies. Over 2,000 tons of steel were used for the particle accelerator’s magnet alone.
Photography by Sarra, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-00110, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library @uchicagoscrc
















