Subatomic particles and giant magnets

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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. "They're not playthings," says Pelton, who earned his Ph.D. in the lab of chemist Dave Wemmer, now the facility's director, and was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before moving to work with QB3. "I'm sure some people have that mindset. But the focus is really on doing good research. And that's what drives me."

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