Yale University
In Sloane Physics Laboratory, there's a narrow staircase with an ornate, black-painted hand railing that descends to a dimly lit sub-basement. From there, a hard right turn leads into a warren of interconnected rooms appointed with hand tools, electronics, and tables.
That's where you'll find Paul Noel teaching Yale students how to perturb protons.
Noel, recently named manager of instructional labs for the Department of Physics, is Yale's guru of the Van de Graaff Teaching Accelerator. He guides small groups of undergraduates through the process of measuring subatomic particles and collecting data points with the 69-year-old machine.
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