References

Living with Nuclei: 50 Years in the Nuclear Age – Memoirs of a Japanese Physicist

Dr. Kimura was one of the founders of accelerator science in Japan. His memoirs also reflect the disillusions of a physicist who witnessed first-hand the destructive ends humans chose to produce with his beloved science.

M. Kimura and J.M. Carpenter, Sasaki Pub, Sendai, Japan (1993).

Takada, H.; Haga, K.; Teshigawara, M.; Aso, T.; Meigo, S.-I.; Kogawa, H.; Naoe, T.; Wakui, T.; Ooi, M.; Harada, M.; Futakawa, M.

Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility at J-PARC

I: Pulsed Spallation Neutron Source.

Quantum Beam Sci. 2017, 1(2), 8;
https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs1020008..
https://www.mdpi.com/2412-382X/1/2/8

Nakajima, K.; Kawakita, Y.; Itoh, S.; Abe, J.; Aizawa, K.; Aoki, H.; Endo, H.; Fujita, M.; Funakoshi, K.; Gong, W.; Harada, M.; Harjo, S.; Hattori, T.; Hino, M.; Honda, T.; Hoshikawa, A.; Ikeda, K.; Ino, T.; Ishigaki, T.; Ishikawa, Y.; Iwase, H.; Kai, T.; Kajimoto, R.; Kamiyama, T.; Kaneko, N.; Kawana, D.; Ohira-Kawamura, S.; Kawasaki, T.; Kimura, A.; Kiyanagi, R.; Kojima, K.; Kusaka, K.; Lee, S.; Machida, S.; Masuda, T.; Mishima, K.; Mitamura, K.; Nakamura, M.; Nakamura, S.; Nakao, A.; Oda, T.; Ohhara, T.; Ohishi, K.; Ohshita, H.; Oikawa, K.; Otomo, T.; Sano-Furukawa, A.; Shibata, K.; Shinohara, T.; Soyama, K.; Suzuki, J.-I.; Suzuya, K.; Takahara, A.; Takata, S.-I.; Takeda, M.; Toh, Y.; Torii, S.; Torikai, N.; Yamada, N.L.; Yamada, T.; Yamazaki, D.; Yokoo, T.; Yonemura, M.; Yoshizawa, H.

Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility at J-PARC

II: Neutron Scattering Instruments.

Quantum Beam Sci. 2017, 1(3), 9;
https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs1030009..
https://www.mdpi.com/2412-382X/1/3/9

Sakasai, K.; Satoh, S.; Seya, T.; Nakamura, T.; Toh, K.; Yamagishi, H.; Soyama, K.; Yamazaki, D.; Maruyama, R.; Oku, T.; Ino, T.; Kira, H.; Hayashida, H.; Sakai, K.; Itoh, S.; Suzuya, K.; Kambara, W.; Kajimoto, R.; Nakajima, K.; Shibata, K.; Nakamura, M.; Otomo, T.; Nakatani, T.; Inamura, Y.; Suzuki, J.; Ito, T.; Okazaki, N.; Moriyama, K.; Aizawa, K.; Ohira-Kawamura, S.; Watanabe, M.

Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility at J-PARC

III: Neutron Devices and Computational and Sample Environments.

Quantum Beam Sci. 2017, 1(2), 10;
https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs1020010..
https://www.mdpi.com/2412-382X/1/2/10

Hommage à Mélusine

Rédigé par A. Filhol sur la base de documents fournis par Edouard Roudaut (2014)

Picture: Melusine. Mise en place du bidon de 300L de D₂O sur la grille du coeur.

Le réacteur de recherche Siloé

A. Filhol avec les témoignages de Louis-Pierre Regnault, Edouard Roudaut, Jacques Schweizer et Francis Tasset.

Picture: Vue d’ensemble de Siloé (1963/64), CEA/E. Roudaut, Ref. 3.

Geschichte des SIN

Andreas Pritzker, Geschichte des SIN, munda Verlag, Küttigen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-905993-10-3

Picture: Book cover.

Chronik des Hahn-Meitner-Instituts in Berlin

Sven Tode, Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, ISBN 3-922857-31-0 (2005).

Das Hahn-Meitner-Institut (heute Teil des Helmholtz-Zentrums Berlin für Materialien und Energie) entstand 1959 zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges auf Initiative einer Gruppe von Berliner Hochschullehrern als Institut für Kernforschung im Westteil der Stadt. Im Geist der Namenspatrone Otto Hahn und Lise Meitner war das Institut vor allem durch die Zusammenarbeit von Spitzenforschern verschiedener Disziplinen geprägt.

Link to the book on the German Amazon.

• Des neutrons pour la science: Histoire de l’Institut Laue-Langevin, une coopération internationale particulièrement réussie
  B. Jacrot, EDP Sciences, France (2006).
  (Link to the book at the French Amazon shop.)

• 50^th anniversary of the ILL feted in Grenoble 19 Jan 2017
  ILL celebrated its 50^th anniversary in 2017. This book tells about ILL’s 50 years of service to science and society. Available in the 3 official languages.

• General presentation film 2017 – A film released for the 2017 APS conference

Historical Documentary: ISIS neutron and muon source

This film shows the early construction at the ISIS facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), in the UK. The film was made in the summer of 1985, in preparation for the official opening in October 1985 of the facility by Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister. At this event the name of the source was changed from “Spallation Neutron Source” (SNS) to ISIS. The name ISIS is not an acronym: it refers to the Ancient Egyptian goddess and the local name for the River Thames.

The source delivered its first neutrons on 16-Dec-1984.

The speaker at the beginning of the video is J. Bruce Forsyth, an expert on polarized neutrons, who worked at both Harwell and RAL; the speaker at the end is Alan Leadbetter, who was Scientific Director of SNS/ISIS from 1982 to 1988.

Watch it here (YouTube).

• NSSA – The Origins of Neutron Scattering Society of America, H. Glyde, Neutron News 24, 16 (2013).

• NSSA – Neutron scattering society of America is established, Physics Today 45, 73 (1992)

Slow Neutron Spectroscopy and the Grand Atlas of the Physical World

From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1991-1995, Editor Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore (1997) and Rev. Mod. Phys. 67, 735–751 (1995)

Early Development of Neutron Scattering

From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1991-1995, Editor Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore (1997) and Rev. Mod. Phys. 67, 753–757.

History of Neutron Science at Brookhaven National Laboratory

• Interviewee: Maurice Goldhaber – video

• Interviewee: Laurence Passell – video

• The early development of neutron diffraction: science in the wings of the Manhattan Project
  T. E. Mason, T. J. Gawne, S. E. Nagler, M. B. Nestora, and J. M. Carpenter, Acta. Cryst. A 69, 37–44 (2013) from complete issue.

• Center for Oak Ridge Oral History
  COROH website
  Video interview – Oral History of Michael K. Wilkinson, Frederick W. Young, and Ralph M. Moon, Interviewed by Stephen H. Stow, Assisted by Marilyn Z. McLaughlin (2003)

• Early history of neutron scattering at Oak Ridge
  M. K. Wilkinson, Physica B, 137, 3–16 (1986).

• The Chang and Eng Neutron Detector (1940s)
  Early neutron detector – 1940s

Picture: Wollan and Shull using a diffractometer at the Graphite Reactor in 1950. Courtesy of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed for the U.S. Dept. of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC

“Discoveries that changed the world: James Chadwick (1891-1974) and Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968)” links to a YouTube recording of a talk by Gerry Lander at the Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France, on 16-Jan-2015 telling the story of the discovery of the neutron in 1932, and then that of fission in 1939 through the lives of Chadwick and Meitner and world events.

To watch the video click here.

The early years of neutron stress measurements are recounted using published documents and input from workers in the field. The circumstances and motivations of the early workers in the field are discussed, and some general conclusions are drawn.

A. Krawitz, Materials Science Forum Vols., 571-572, pp 3-11 (2008)

This book aims to trace the history of neutron scattering from its pioneer days, to give an outline of the achievements in its main fields of application – notably magnetism, chemistry, lattice dynamics and biology – and some account of its present status. Articles are contributed by pioneers who have worked in the subject for more than 40 years. With stories and reminiscences of the early days in fifteen different countries, the book captures something of the flavour and opportunities of neutron scattering and shows the changes in the way of life of neutron experimenters over the past fifty years.

G.E. Bacon (eds.), Hilger with the assistance of the International Union of Crystallography (1987)

Soviet Physics Uspekhi, 25 (1982)

• I.M. Frank “Fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the neutron”
• A.I. Frank “Fundamental properties of the neutron: Fifty years of research”
• L.B. Pikel’ner, Yu.P. Popov, E.I. Sharapov “High-intensity neutron spectroscopy of nuclei”
• Yu.M. Ostanevich, I.N. Serdyuk “Neutron-diffraction studies of the structure of biological macromolecules”
• E.P. Velikhov, V.S. Golubev, S.V. Pashkin “Glow discharge in a gas flow”