Robert B. Wilson, associate professor of Physics and former head of the Division of Experimental Physics at the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhatten Project, will on February 1 assume duties as Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at Cornell University, President Edmund E. Day of Cornell announced yesterday.
Considered by his colleagues an outstanding authority in the field of atomic energy, Wilson is presently engaged in developing the massive new University cyclotron that will be assembled near Oxford and Everett Streets sometime this spring. Cement-pouring operations on the three-foot concrete base that will support the atom-smasher will be speeded up by the recent break in a cold spell that had frozen the site.
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