Abstract
Long ago, shortly before World War II, when I was but 13 years of age, I was excited by an article in Popular Mechanics magazine that described Ernest O. Lawrence's project to construct the world's greatest atom smasher, a 184-inch cyclotron, on a hill overlooking the Berkeley campus of the University of California. From that point on, my career goal was to become a physicist. While the 184-inch-cyclotron project has always symbolized to me the beauty and excitement of unlocking the mysteries of nature, I never suspected, even for many years into my career as a high-energy and cosmic-ray physicist, that I would have a rendezvous with destiny involving the 184-inch cyclotron: using it in its waning years to make my most significant contribution to the progress of science.
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