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Throwback Thursday: acceleration credits

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 12:12pm March 16 2023

It looks like a still from Dr. Strangelove, but this photo from our February 1963 issue shows physics professor D. Allan Bromley with a model of Yale's "unique new atom-smasher," as our headline put it. The nuclear accelerator in the side of Science Hill,and its 1980s successor, served the university until 2014.

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