| RefNo | EC/1963/01 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVII, 60 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Adams, John Bertram: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | J.B. Adams was responsible at C.E.R.N. for the design and construction of the 25/28 Billion electron volt proton synchrotron. This was the first major accelerator to be designed on the strong focusing principle and serious instabilities in the 400,000 turn orbit might have been encountered. These were avoided by design studies using high speed computers. Potential difficulties due to very small misalignments of the 200 metre diameter magnetic track were also avoided by good design. The accelerator delivered protons of 28 BeV energy within a few weeks of starting up, and the intensity of the proton beam is already ten times higher than the design intensity, with promise of a further increase.
The design and construction is a remarkable achievement of an international team led by Adams, but his own contribution played a major part.
The early start of the machine restores to Europe the opportunity of working in the front of high energy nuclear physics, which it has lacked for the last decade. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: Proposer - John Cockcroft; P M S Blackett; P I Dee; C F Powell; H S W Massey; G P Thomson; BenLockspeiser; B F J Schonland; W G Penney; D H Wilkinson; S Devons; B H Flowers;
From General Knowledge: F C Williams |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3529 | Adams; Sir; John Bertram (1920 - 1984) | 1920 - 1984 |