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- OBJECT TYPE
- TRIPLE AXIS NEUTRON
- DATE
- 1957–1961
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1995.1561.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.
- MODEL
- BROCKHOUSE
- LOCATION
- Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL COMPONENTS (INCLUDING CAST IRON, MILD STEEL, COPPER & COPPER ALLOYS); PARAFIN WAX SUPPORTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 170.0 cm
- Width
- 120.0 cm
- Height
- 102.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Light & electromagnetic radiation
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- AECL
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Chalk River
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- THIS INSTRUMENT PROBABLY USED C. LATE 1950S- 1960S, AND POSSIBLY LATER.
- Canada
-
DESIGNED AND USED BY DR. BERTRAM N. BROCKHOUSE, CO-WINNER OF 1994 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS FOR HIS PIONEERING WORK IN NEUTRON SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS DURING THE 1950S. DR. BROCKHOUSE CONDUCTED HIS RESEARCH AT THE AECL LABS. (1950-61) AND AT MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON ON WHERE HE WAS PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS (1962-84). - Function
-
USED TO MEASURE THE MOTIONS OF ATOMS. - Technical
-
BROCKHOUSE'S ORIGINAL C5 TRIPLE-AXIS SPECTROMETER WAS INSTALLED AT AECL'S NRU REACTOR IN 1958. IN 1959 BROCKHOUSE DISCOVERED THE CONSTANT Q (CONSTANT MOMENTUM TRANSFER) METHOD OF MAKING MEASUREMENTS. BY CHANGING VARIOUS SPECTROMETER ANGLES, THE MAGNITUDE & DIRECTIONS OF THE MOMENTUM TRANSFER WOULD REMAIN THE SAME AT EACH POINT OF THE ENERGY TRANSFER.THE COMBINATION OF THE TRIPLE AXIS SPECTROMETER & THE CONSTANT Q PROCESS REVOLUTIONIZED STUDY OF CONDENSED MATTER SCIENCE. THIS SPECTROMETER EMBODIES MODIFICATIONS MADE THROUGHOUT BROCKHOUSE'S CAREER AT AECL. (1950-61) - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Sign displayed with spectrometer reads " SLOWLY MOVING/ equipment/ Do Not Touch/ or TAKE SWIPES ". Finely graduated scale & micrometer on rotating base. Ther handwritten notes, measurements etc. appear on spectrometer. " SLO-SYN " driving motor labelled.
- Missing
- SPECIFIC MISSING PARTS UNKNOWN. From CA of 02/22/2002 by Matthew Bruce: No - appears complete
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Spectrometer, between 1957–1961, Artifact no. 1995.1561, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.1561.001/
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