Subatomic particles and giant magnets

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Jeff Pelton the manager of Stanley Halls NMR facility says the campuss new 900 MHz magnet like the building itself is helping to bridge the gaps between various scientific disciplines. (Peg Skorpinski photos)
Jeff Pelton, the manager of Stanley Hall’s NMR facility, says the campus’s new 900 MHz magnet — like the building itself — is helping to bridge the gaps between various scientific disciplines. (Peg Skorpinski photos)

Lest anyone be tempted to think of Stanley Hall’s giant magnet as a $5 million toy for fun-starved quantitative scientists, Jeff Pelton is eager to set the record straight. Pelton, a spectroscopist who manages the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) facility in the building’s basement, takes a decidedly no-nonsense view of the 7-ton, 900 MHz device, which produces a magnetic field of 21 Tesla — 400,000 times that of Earth.


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