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