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National Research Council (U.S.). Ad Hoc Panel on On-line Computers in Nuclear Research
A specialist National Research Council panel captured a turning point when computers were starting to transform nuclear physics. Its 1969 report offers a clear window into how scientists and research planners thought about on-line data systems at the dawn of modern data acquisition.
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On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969
by National Research Council (U.S.). Ad Hoc Panel on On-line Computers in Nuclear Research
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This author credit refers to an ad hoc panel of the U.S. National Research Council, not to a single individual. The panel prepared On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969, a report on how emerging computer systems could be used to collect and handle experimental data in nuclear research.
The report itself explains that the panel was part of the Committee on Nuclear Science and was appointed in March 1968, with its first meeting held in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 1968. Its work focused on the growing role of on-line computers in laboratories, especially for data acquisition, system design, and practical planning.
For listeners interested in the history of science and computing, this is best understood as a collaborative institutional author: a group of experts writing at a moment when digital tools were beginning to reshape experimental physics.