Winfield W. Salisbury At Collins Radio

After the conclusion of  World War II, Winfield Salisbury was to join Collins Radio and head up the Research and Development Department. In his collection at the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation there is a large collection of letters, papers, Blue Prints and photographs relating to the Cyclotron Collins was to build at Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratories

The Founding of Brookhaven, a Laboratory for Peacetime Research

In 1946, representatives from nine major eastern universities — Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, and Yale — formed a nonprofit corporation to establish a new nuclear-science facility, and they chose a surplus army base “way out on Long Island” as the site. Thus, Brookhaven National Laboratory was born. On March 21, 1947, the U.S. War Department transferred the site of Camp Upton on Long Island to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which was the federal agency that oversaw the founding of Brookhaven National Laboratory and was a predecessor to the present U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The AEC provided the initial funding for Brookhaven’s research into the peaceful uses of the atom, with the goal of improving public well-being. (For further reading go to http://www.bnl.gov/)

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