Technology whatever plan was humane does the repeat one action Section is working as a team to meet another deadline; another step, a giant one, the building of the world's largest accelerator. If this sounds as if it might be too much to expect; perhaps a dream ask the who owns one a with a mission! Source: The Village Crier Vol. 1 No. 5, 1969 Thom Edwards has been appointed by Dr. R. to serve as Associate Head of the Booster Section. Dr. Edwards received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University, Ithaca, New 1957 and her PhD Experimental Physics 1966. For the past four years she has been a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, University. early Dr. announced the appointment of Roy Billinge as Section Leader of the Booster group. Billinge joined NAL after serving the senior scientific office of the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory at Chilton, Berkshire, England, from 1959 to 1968. He was a tutor electro-magnetic theory at the College of Advanced Technology. While Europe, Billinge served as a guest member of the European Committee for Accelerators focusing on the study group on Boosters. Dr. Edwards' husband, Dr. Edwards, is with the Accelerator Theory Section at NAL and, at present, is mainly concerned with the control system of the accelerator. The Edwards reside Elgin, Illinois. Source: The Village Crier Vol. 2 No. 11, 19 The election of M. Livingston, associate director of NAL, to the National Academy of Sciences was announced Washington, D.C., 28. He was one of 50 new members elected recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements original research. Livingston's election took place during the business session of the 107th annual meeting of the Academy at its headquarters the capital city. Election to membership the Academy is considered to be one of the highest honors that can be accorded to American scientist or engineer. Up to 50 members be elected each year. Those elected this year bring the total to 870. The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. The Academy was established 1863 by a Congressional Act of Incorporation signed by Abraham which calls upon the Academy to act as official adviser to the Federal government, upon request, any matter of science or technology. This provision accounts for the close ties that have always existed between the Academy and the Government, although the Academy is not a governmental agency. Livingston, who was associated with the late O. Lawrence the original development of the cyclotron, joined the NAL staff the spring of 1968. He came to NAL from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mass., and was director of the Electron Accelerator from 1965 to 1967. this position, he was concerned with the design and administration of the 6 accelerator jointly operated by Harvard University and MIT for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Among other members of the National Academy of Sciences closely affiliated with NAL are its director, Rathbun and Ramsey, professor of physics at Harvard University and president of Universities Research Association, Inc., which operates NAL for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Universities Research Association, Inc., who are also members of the National Academy of Sciences include Bacher, California Institute of Technology; McMillan, University of California, Berkeley; Leon M. Lederman, Columbia University; E. Marshak, University of Rochester. Source: The Village Crier Vol. 2 No. 19, 14 The responsibility of the Radiation Physics Section that concerns the largest number of people is that of protecting people and the environment from nuclear radiation. If one says protecting... from nuclear radiations, one implies that nuclear radiations be hazardous. Indeed, nuclear radiations be just as hazardous as cooking gas, automobile fuel, electricity, smoking cigarettes, or the cleaning fluid one uses to remove grease spots from clothing. our modern society, one learns about the advantages of electricity and learns to avoid electrocution; one learns the convenience of driving cars and how to cross streets carefully as well as not inhaling too the fumes from the exhaust. other words, one learns to trade some convenience for some risk. fact, people enjoy smoking much that they are willing to pay for the pleasure with five to ten years of their life! Nuclear radiations like almost all products of modern technology help make life better and more enjoyable. It is common practice to use nuclear radiations finding bad teeth, helping set broken bones, search for malignancies the bodies of the sick, cure or arrest cancer, correct overactive thyroid glands without surgery, etc. However, nuclear radiations like a medicine, do good small amounts and harm large amounts. Hence, a very important function of the Radiation Physics Section is to teach and help NAL personnel to live with radiation, making sure that neither exposures to personnel or visitors nor radioactivity released into the environment cause any detectable change the health of NAL personnel, visitors, or neighbors living just outside NAL's boundaries. Recently a milestone was reached the Radiation Physics Section when the first of a family of semi-portable, special nuclear radiation detectors was designed and built. This type of detector permit anybody at NAL to detect nuclear radiations and