On 12 March, at 6:00 PM, the Museum of History of Science and Technology of JINR invites everyone interested to the “Academician Veksler: history and legends” historical and scientific seminar dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the autophasing principle. The lecturer is Alexander Rastorguev.

At the end of the 1930s, the creators of cyclotrons came close to a fundamental problem, the so-called “relativistic limit”. The seemingly impossible solution was found by a person who called himself an electrical engineer rather than physicist. Without systematic education in physics, all it took him was the first chapter of a university textbook to understand how to turn the obstacle that the theory of relativity poses to a further increase in energy into an advantage. Thus, in an endless line for bread, he came up with the idea of a new accelerator, the microtron. Then, almost immediately came the second idea, which revolutionised physics and accelerator technology.