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Directory of Federal Research & Development Installations for the Year Ending June 30, 1969

This document is part of a report from the National Science foundation which serves as a directory of the Federal Research & Development Installations in 1969. It provides additional information on the Princeton-Pennsylvania Synchrotron such as director, location, federal agency affiliation, number of employees, funding, major…

Milton White Interviews (May 1972, Feb 1973, Jan 1975, and Feb 1975)

This series of interviews with Princeton Professor of Physics and Director of the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator Laboratory, Milton White, discuss Whites's experiences that led him to physics, his doctoral research,…

Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator Records

The Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator Records include 16 boxes of files stored at Princeton’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. These documents are from the…

Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator: End of an Era in Particle Physics

This article discusses the abrupt decommissioning of the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator (PPA). The decision to close the PPA came abruptly, just 7 years after its operations began in 1962. The Atomic Energy Commission notified PPA in January 1970, after assuring a $3.5 million budget for the remainder of…

The Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator

In this article by Milton White discusses the history, construction, and early research on the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator. This 3 billion electron volt proton synchrotron had a pulse rate a hundred times greater than that usually used at 19 cycles per second. It was constructed jointly with Princeton University and the…