Who Chose the Colors for the Cyclotron?
A few weeks ago, I set out on a quest to solve some of the great mysteries of TRIUMF: deciphering who chose the color palette for the cyclotron and how to turn this into a Headline News story. What started out as a simple task with a single lead resulted in conversations with people who had worked at TRIUMF 30 years ago, and were willing to offer very interesting and personal stories. Although the individuals were not able to fully determine what happened in 1972 when the cyclotron was built and colors were painted in its different sectors, I determined that my current findings were worth sharing with the TRIUMF community and the general public. Read on! When presented with this assignment, I was originally asked to investigate the Group of Seven, a famous group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s. It was Nigel Lockyer’s belief (TRIUMF’s current director) that one of the wives of the Group had chosen the colors for the main buildings. Looking to confirm this legend with someone
