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Discoveries, Inventions and Innovations

of

Dr. Bogdan Maglich

Bogdan Maglich: Early Career, University of Liverpool and Bruno Pontecorvo.

Bogdan Maglich a.k.a. Maglić, started his career in nuclear physics at age 19 as assistant to Prof. Pavle Savitch,the co-discoverer of nuclear fission who, together with Irene Joliot –Curie, first observed the fission fragmentlanthanum, when bombarding uranium with neutrons at the Institute Curie du radium in Paris in 1938. Savitchreturned to Belgrade, Yugoslavia after WWII and built Institute for nuclear sciences in Vincha, with the supportof French physicists and of Yugoslavia’s President Tito, whose telecommunications officer Savitch wasthroughout the partisan guerilla warfare 1941-5. It is still a mystery why Joliot and Savitch did not share theNobel Prize with Hahn and Strassman who confirmed uranium fission in 1939, as discussed in 1938.

Maglich’s first published paper reporting his methods for neutron production with 1.4 MeV acceleratorpublished in ATOMICS, London in 1954 although he never submitted it to the publisher. It was reproduced byATOMICS from an internal report in the Institute’s Bulletin which had been sent to publishing houses in Europewith permission to republish.

At that time, Vincha Institute had its first American visitor from the US Atomic Energy Commission, MIT’sProfessor Bernard Feld. A Manhattan project alum, Feld offered MIT research assistantship to Maglich, but hehad to decline the tantalizing offer! Maglich was already admitted as student for doctorate at the University ofLiverpool, where the largest cyclotron in Europe was just built. Bruno Pontecorvo then considered number oneEuropean experimental nuclear physicist and personal friend of Savitch of long standing, had just beenappointed professor at University of Liverpool and would be Maglich’s thesis advisor.

When Maglich arrived in London, on his way to Liverpool (1954), all newspapers had on their cover pages“Atom spy escapes to Russia!” It turned out to be Maglich’s professor-to-be Pontecorvo.

Maglich obtained M.Sc. at Liverpool six months later and arrived to MIT in January 1956. First time he metPontecorvo at an International conference on High Energy Physics in Dubna, near Moscow as a member ofCERN delegation in 1964; and several times since. Pontecorvo was not an atomic spy. He had worked onnuclear reactors only and had no access to nuclear weapons in England or Russia. Pontecorvo’s decision todefect to Russia was made on ideological grounds when the McCarthy hearings reached Britain. After Stalin’sdeath, Pontecorvo was offered a faculty position when visiting Italy, but he returned home to Moscow wherehis fellow Russian physicists called him “the man who has everything.”

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List of Inventions, Discoveries and Innovations by Bogdan C. Maglich

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (as Grad. Student) (1956-9):

1. INVENTION, with B.T. Feld of Nuclear Emulsions asProton Polarizer/Analyzer. Method & Reduction to practice. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1, 375 (1958)

2. INVENTION of Neutron Photometer Method &Reduction to practice. MIT Report 1960

3. πp Scattering: new method using emulsions in liquid hydrogen. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 1444 (1961)

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B. C. Maglich is lead author or co-author on 22 Physical Review Letters articles, the most for any individual.

Obtained Ph.D. at MIT on 3 ½ years

Work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:

4. DISCOVERY of Anti-Sigma Zero Particle Phys. Rev. Lett. 4, 530 (1960)

5. DISCOVERY: Magnetic Moment of Antiproton and its Negative Sign Method.Double 𝒑 scattering in LH2Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 1297 (1962)

6. DISCOVERY of ‘Peripheral Annihilations’: Asymmetry in Antiproton-ProtonAnnihilations.

B. Maglich, G.L. Kalbfleisch, M.L. StevensonPhys. Rev. Lett. 137 (1961)

7. DISCOVERY of the omega Boson.B. C. Maglich, L.W. Alvarez, A.H. Rosenfeld,

M.L. StevensonPhys. Rev. Lett. 7, 178 (1961)

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Discovery of the omega meson opened the field of Boson Spectrometry:

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Congratulations From U.S. President Kennedy

“Although Bogdan Maglić originated the planfor this search, and pushed through themeasurements by himself, he graciously

insisted that the paper announcing his discovery(65) Should be coauthored by three of us who

had developed the chamber, the beam, and theanalysis program that made it possible.”

Luis Alaverz, Nobel Lecture,Science 165, 1071 (1969)

8. Determination of Spin and Parity of the omega Meson. Debate with Werner Heisenberg.

NOBEL LAUREATE “UNCERTAINTY RELATION”

Incorrectly called“Hitler’s Atom Bomb Maker”

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To view personal correspondences between Professors Heisenberg and

Maglich, please visit:

http://www.heisenbergmaglichletters.net/

FACT: Heisenberg and von Speerjointly decided not to work on the bomb in 1942

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9. SEARCH and DISCOVERY

Bogdan Maglich and Freeman Dyson,The Institute for Advanced Study,

Princeton (1984).

Bogdan Maglich with Kai Siegbahn, Swedish Nobel Laureate, physicist and

editor of Nuclear Instruments and Methods that published over 20 papers authored of co-authored by Maglich, as

well as his book Aneutronic Energy(NIM A 271, 1-238, 1988)

B. Maglich, J. Norwood (editors)40 coauthors, including:

M. Gell-Mann, M. RosenbluthJ. Blewett, Kulsrud

At Berkeley:

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Bubble Chamber: 100,000 pictures/yearFilmless Chamber: 86,400 pictures/dayALL SPARK CHAMBERS ARE FILMLESS TODAY

10. INVENTION of FIRSTFILM-LESS SPARK CHAMBER.SONIC SPARK CHAMBER (1962)

U. S. Patent # 3,278,892F.Kirsten, B.Maglich

CERN: European Center for ElementaryParticle Physics (1963)

Live Demo in Front of Audience of

World’s First Filmless Spark Chamber System

TV

Screen

MaglichPresenting

Cosmic RayHits Chamber

1 second later (x,y,x) coordinatesprinted on tape

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12. PARTICLE FISHING WITH A NET, NOT A HOOK.Discovered 7 new bosons in one experiment using the invention of

missing-mass spectrometer with filmless spark chamber.B. Maglich, G. Costa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 18, 185 (1965)

13. DISCOVERY of Delta 962 MeV Boson. Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 438 (1968)14. DISCOVERY of I=1 meson with mass 1675 MeV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 712 (1966)15. DISCOVERY of 3 I=1 Heavy Bosons of mass 1929, 2195 and 2383 MeV.Phys. Rev. Lett. 28, 1251 (1972); Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 498 (1970); Phys. Rev. Lett. 442, 1497 (1971)

Work at Brookhaven National Laboratory:

16. INVENTION of Antiproton Annihilation Spectrometer. Method & Reduction to PracticePhys. Rev. Lett. 30, 511 (1973)

17. At FERMILAB: First Physics experiment ever preformed at FermiLabINVENTION of Baryon Spectrometer Inside Accelerator-Ring. Phys. Rev. Lett. 27, 442 (1971)

NOBEL LAURATE Paul A.M.Dirac,DISCOVERER OF ANTI-MATTER andBogdan Maglich at Everglades, FloridaJanuary 1971. Following up Maglich'slecture on Self-Colliding orbits, of pionsand muons, Dirac approached Maglichsaying “But this is an entirely newphysics!” Dirac suggested AnthonyColleraine, his son-in-law, to joinMaglich’s research team. Collerainebecame Research Associate at RutgersUniversity and a co-author of the paper16 that opened up the field of collidingbeam fusion. (Mrs. Dirac, sister of EugenWigner in background).

18. DISCOVERY of ‘The Principle of Self-Colliding Orbits and its Possible Application to μ-μ and π-π Collisions’By Robert Macek and Bogdan Maglich. Particle Accelerators, Vol. 1, pg. 191 (1970)

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Work at Rutgers University: Supported by the National Science Foundation

19. INVENTION and Reduction to practice

20. DISCOVERY Critical Energy in Tokamak Fusion Reactor design 1996: www.aneutronicenergy.org

21. INNOVATION: Unified Criterion for Proximity to Controlled Fusion.

22. INVENTION of Migma Principle of Controlled Fusion. Method for non-radioactive, neutron-free fusion energy - later renamed ANEUTRONIC FUSION and COLLIDING-BEAM FUSION.

23. INVENTION and Reduction to practice of Migmacell 11

FROM PURE TO APPLIED SCIENCE ANEUTRONIC FUSION ENERGY

COLLIDING BEAM FUSION Rutgers Univ. 1970

1st AUTO-COLLIDERMIGMA I

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PRINCETON 1972

“FATHER of TV”VLADIMIR ZWORYKIN

Life V.P. RCACHMN. Fusion Energy Corporation

RUDOLF MAIERAlusuisse Chairman, Zurich

Contract with Fusion Energy CorporationTo launch colliding beam fusion

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1st Desalination Plant at Red Sea by Mobil Oil

SAUDI ARABIA, 1980PRINCETON 1973

SON of KING FAISALPRINCE MOHAMMED AL FAISAL ALSAUDContract with Fusion Energy Corporation

towards colliding beam fusion

Dr. FAWAZ ALAMY, DIRECTOR GENERALDr. MAGLICH, SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR

King Abdul Aziz Energy Research CenterJEDDAH

SYMMETRY X=Y-Z=0; BD (Beam Dump)

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1 m

IV

1st COLLIDING BEAM FUSION REACTOR

J. Nering, Chief Engineer, is in the background

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BEST PLASMA FUSIONτ = 0.2 sec.

1st

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24. INVENTION of Time–Average Neutralization of Stored Ions by

Oscillating Electrons.

US Patent 4,788,024 B.Maglich and S.Menasian

1976

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SECRETARY HENRY KISSINGER SENDS MAGLICH ON A MISSION TO PRESIDENT TITO AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF US

PRESIDENT FORD

Mrs.Tito

Pres.Tito

Dr. James FletcherDirector, NASA

Dr.Maglich

PRESENTING ASTONISHED TITO A SATELITE PHOTO OF HIS BIRTH-HOME IN

VILLAGE KUMROVEC, CROATIA FEATURING DETAILS IN HIS COURTYARD

1976

Opening Tesla’s Monument at Niagara Falls

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Pres. Tito Dr. Maglich

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Maglich and Seaborg presentingcolliding beam fusion reactorbefore it was stopped by DOE

Subsequent work is summarized in elaborate publications:

25. INVENTION OF REVERSE IMPACT FUSION!Impact Fusion of the Second Kind: DT Fuelled Spheres Incident Upon a Passive Target.

Second International Symposium on Advanced Fuel Fusion / Aneutronic Energy,Washington D.C.1988

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NOBEL LAUREATE

Nuclear Advisor to 7 US Presidents

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Published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods (NIM)

40 coauthors, including:M. Gell-Mann, M. Rosenbluth

J. Blewett, Kulsrud

NIM A 271, 1-238, 1988B. Maglich, J. Norwood (editors)

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Search for hidden chamber in second (Khofra) great pyramid in Egypt, 1988.With Physicists Professors Hassan El-Fikhri and Fatim El-Bedewi:

En-Shaim University, Cairo

Film by Victoria Vesna and Maglich about the searchwon Golden Eagle Prize as best scientific documentary in 1998.

26. INVENTION of Aneutronic Fusion Space Power Plant.

27. INVENTION OF FAST NEUTRON ATOMETRY FOR LAND MINE DETECTION a.k.a. FEMTO-ATOMETRY, which is STOICHIOMETRY BY MEANS OF FAST NEUTRONS. First time in history of chemistry empirical chemical formulas were decoded without test tubes.

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1987 Serprukov, nr. MOSCOW

ISRAEL: KNESETUzi LANDAU, CHMN. of DEFENSE and

FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE (MIT alumn)

SPECIAL TECHNOLOGIES LAB US DOE CALIFORNIA

First experimental DEMO of Fempto Atometry (January 19,

1998): Identification of Cocaine hidden in rice from 1 meter

distance. Announced at White House Symposium

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National Press Club, WASHINGTON

2004 Elected one of 50 “CHAMPION INNOVATOR’S GLOBALLY

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MOSCOW 1993

Dr. Maglich Chairs 1st Meeting on MARR (Mini American Russian Reactor)

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Dr. MAGLICH CHAIRS BELGRADE POST-CHERNOBYL MEETING OF AMERICIAN & RUSSIAN REACTOR DESIGNERS

CALIFORNIA, 1993RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS

Seaborg Maglich

KREMLIN 1993 MINISTER OF ATOMIC ENERGY

MOSCOW 1993 ROCKET PLANT “ENERGIYA”

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Identification of Anthrax by Fast Neutrons

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Los Angeles PoliceBOMB SQUAD

Watching Screen as it REMOTELY IDENTIFIES BOMBS from COMMON

SUBSTANCES IN MINUTES

Detection of AnthraxUnder a DARPA contract, SuperSenzor was able to stoichiometrically differentiate

between anthrax dead spores and yeast.

DANGER IN SMALL

PACKAGES: Defense

Secretary William

Cohen explains to the

nation the destructive

power of even small

quantities of biological

weapons, Nov. 16,

1997. An amount of

anthrax equal to this

bag of sugar would kill

half of the city of

Washington.

THE REAL STUFF: Dr. Maglich is holding a

bag containing 2lbs of dead Anthrax spores

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Instant Analysis Screen

WHAT OPERATOR SEES ON THE SCREEN

Needle-less Biopsy of Breast Tumor

•80% biopsied breast tumors are benign

•ONCOSENSOR will reduce # of invasive procedures

•Chemical analysis NONINVASIVELY & INSTANTLY“YES” – malignant

“NO” - normal

1-3 min ANSWER

Cancer Diagnostics by fast neutrons

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Dr. Maglich & Hitachi Central Re. Lab engineers, developing & testingNew Gamma Detector SuperCT at Nuclear Reactor Lab at UC Irvine

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L to R: Maglich, Keiji Kobashi (leader), Kazumi Yoko,Yasuyuki Ogi and Akira Yoshida

• Earliest – changes begin 20

years before IMAGING diagnosis.• Mild to Moderate

last from 2-10 years.

• Severe – may last from 1-5 years.

ALZHEIMER’S

Our Goal: Pre-Earliest DiagnosesPick–up Chemical Pre-Curser Changes20 years before Visible tissue Deformation.

RESEARCH METHOD By Detecting Minute Chemical Change between 3 stages.

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Recent Discovery: Micro Quantities of TOXIC METALS present in Alzheimer brains

IN AMYLOID FIBERS IN BRAIN

CopperCarbon

Oxygen

Nitrogen

Zinc Impairs memory

Iron Genetic mutation in Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s

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28. FIRST BOMBARDMENT OF DNA WITH NEUTRONLEADING TO INVENTION OF ‘ONCOSENSOR’ FOR NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER BY FAST-NEUTRONS

29. NEUTRON FEMTO-OXIMETRY FOR NONINVASIVE HIGH-SPECIFICITY CANCER DETECTION

30. ‘ONCOSENSOR’ FOR NONINVASIVE HIGH-SPECIFICITY BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS BY CARBOGEN-ENHANCED NEUTRON FEMTO-OXIMETRY

31. INVENTION OF COLLISIONAL MUTATIONS OF DNA NUCLEOT