The Tuesday edition of SLAC Today, the daily enews of the SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY, features a delightfully funny article by Calla Cofield about efforts 50 years ago to name the newly conceived, 2-mile-long accelerator. It originally bore the ominous name Project M.
Among the proposed names? STanford ELectron Linear Accelerator, or STELLA; Stanford Linear Accelerator Project, or SLAP; and our personal favorite, by Nobel Prize winner Felix Bloch: Stanford’s New Acquisition For Ulcers, or SNAFU.
Read more in the Aug. 31 edition of SLAC Today.
