There, more magnets would funnel them into a delightfully Buck-Rogers-sounding device called a reverse cyclotron.

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FDG, eliminating the need for each hospital to make its own positron emitters in its own cyclotron.

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There he met Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, who gave him a leg up in his career.

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Dr Seaborg created plutonium for the first time in 1940, using the cyclotron to shoot deuterium ions into uranium atoms so fast that their nuclei merged.

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In an extreme case of the newsworthiness bias at work, news outlets ran stories about how the new cyclotron in Switzerland might just create a black hole that would instantly swallow up the earth.

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