DOE Should Keep Education in Mind

摘要

I believe a. Cho's news of the week story "Two U.S. labs vie for long-delayed exotic nuclei source" (18 July, p. 328) misses a few important points about the competition between Michigan State University (MSU) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to build the Department of Energy-funded Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). I know both institutions, having received a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from MSU in 1967 and having worked as a contractor during the 1970s at ANL, where I taught courses on the assay of nuclear materials to members of the International Atomic Energy Commission.