A small team of physicists, engineers, and support staff finished construction of the world’s largest cyclotron and coaxed forth Canada’s first high-energy proton beam.

Since then, beams from TRIUMF’s cyclotron have united physicists, engineers and others from Canada and around the world in our shared goal to explore the universe and build a better world.

1974


– Michael Craddock, 
Head of Accelerator Physics, 55 years at the lab

50 Years, 50 Stories. 

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