What was unique about the cyclotron built under Bothe?
It was the largest in the world
It was the first operational one in Germany
It had a revolutionary design
It was the most efficient of its time
Answer
In 1937, Bothe was appointed Director of the newly founded Institute for Physics in Heidelberg. The institute was equipped with a cyclotron, which was the first operational one in Germany. The cyclotron was used to accelerate protons to high energies and study the nuclear reactions that they induced.
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