Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University

Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), located in the hills to the west of Stanford's main campus near Palo Alto, California. It con- tains a two-mile long electron accelerator, the world's most powerful, operated as a national facility by Stanford University for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. U.S.A. SC12906 COLOR BY MIKE ROBERTS BERKELEY, CALIF. 94710