Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Airhilirf.s ilKiimm « llic sci ' fiilx million volt inlni hiin biiililiini ATOMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE added new buildings for tabs and synchrotron The beginning of a new era tound ils way U) the campus of Iowa Stale College when chemists and physicists consolidated ilieir efforts to form a research group. Dr. Frank H. Spedding, head of this gi ' oiip, directed the vork toward atomic research. Dining the war these scientists contrilnitcd hea ily to atomic knowledge by the dis- co ery ol how to inexpensively ])r()(liice pure tliorium and uranium on a large scale basis. Upon the suggesiicjn of President Charles E. Friley, the Board of EducaticMi of Iowa est ablished a separate budget to create ilie Institute for Atomic Research. The purpose of the Institute is to finther the peacetime developments in atomic research. and encoinage the application of new tools to the arious types of research on the lampus and cooperative work be- tween the ari()us departments and di i- sions.

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Atomic energy com- nfiission ckose ISC for laboratory site Siiuc the loimding ol the research group ill iwo small buildings and a part of ihe Ciheniislrv Building it has grown consider- ably. What is known as the Link has been constructed between the Chemistry and Physics Buildings. This building con- necting the adjoining buildings will house the main oliices of the InstitiUe on the c ampiis. In addition to this the Instiule started const! tic lion on a sMuhroiroii west ol Lvnn Fidirer Lodge. o er a mile Irom the campus, ihe svnchrolron building will be in two sections, one de )tecl to cjflices and laboratories and the other to the synchro- tron. The two sections will be connected by a tunnel. Llie Institute procures funds from many sources other than the state budget. Almcjst all of the funds for the present expansion originated outside ol the stale appropriations. The war time record of the Atomic Institiue as primarily the production of a purer low cost uranium and thorium. The ne ' metliods ol jjroduction reduced the cost of cast inanium and thoriiun to one twentieth ol the pie ioiis cost. There was o ' er a ton ol uianium pioduied h Iowa State scientists. In recognition of liie woik done at Iowa Slate. Secretary ol War Siimson designated the Ciollege as one of the lour ouistanding unixersilies in the counli with projects which contribiued to the atomic bomb. The . rmy-Na y K Hag also llew oxer the College fcjr the production record csiablisiied by the jirojec t. I ' liin-r: Ihiiii Citsldll and Dr. Slnddnii li lrti as I ' rrsidint Frilcy speaks al lite dcdicalion of the Metallurgy iiuild- injT. Lower: Dauid t. Ulienlhal and II ' . 11 . Va mack of the v. S. Atomic Energy Commission visit Dr. Spedding.