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PREDICTIONS – 10 Years Later - Santa Fe Institute

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APPENDIX C<br />

THE ERA OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS<br />

Cumulative number of<br />

particle accelerators<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

<strong>10</strong><br />

Rutherf ord<br />

1%<br />

0<br />

19<strong>10</strong> 1930 1950 1970 1990<br />

APPENDIX FIGURE 3.6 The data on particle accelerators coming into operation<br />

worldwide were fitted with an S-curve whose nominal beginning points at War<br />

World II rather than Rutherford’s famous experiment. ∗<br />

∗<br />

The data come from Mark. Q. Barton, Catalogue of High Energy Accelerators,<br />

Brookhaven National Laboratory, BNL 683, 1961, and J. H. B. Madsen and P. H.<br />

Standley, Catalogue of High-Energy Accelerators (Geneva: CERN, 1980, plus updates).<br />

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