Thursday, February 15, 2007

CI Symposium - 15th February 2007

Mike Poole - ASTeC and the history of Daresbury Laboratory

1957 - Wilkinson proposes HE e synchrotron
1960 - Cockcroft + Cassels propose 4 GeV version
1961 - Cockcroft proposes Cheshire site
1962 - NINA approved
Proposed sites: Macclesfield, Crewe, Winsford, Risley, Skelmersdale
1963 - Daresbury selected

Mike Poole has some great photos of the history of the lab.

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