Collection of photographs documenting assembly of neutron scattering spectrometers

Artifact Number:

2020-035

Description

A collection of eighteen, single and composite photographs, some taken in the 1960s, of various pieces of neutron-scattering spectrometers during manufacture and assembly. These were all framed and displayed in various offices as well as with the spectrometers in NRX and later NRU. They were rescued after the shutdown of neutron-spectroscopy research, which came about with the permanent shut-down of NRU, and were donated to the Society. All the photos were matted and framed in non-standard sized frames. They were removed from the frames in 2020.

Details

Keywords:

neutron spectroscopy; neutron detection; photograph

Date:

1965-1985

Notes:

Ron Rogge, a long-time employee of the Neutron and Solid State Branch at Chalk River, and later an NRC employee when the Branch was transferred to the NRC umbrella in 1998, rescued these framed photographs in February 2020 and donated them to the Society. They were de-framed for storage purposes. Details of the equipment displayed in the photographs were unknown at the time of cataloguing but it is hoped they may be obtained at a later date. Several of the photographs had notations on the back indicating they had been produced in the late 1960s at the request of Bill McAlpine, the draftsman who designed many of the neutron-scattering spectrometers at Chalk River, including the ones used by Bert Brockhouse for his Noble Prize winning work.