Dr. Gartlein also was a member of the Technical Panel on the Upper Atmosphere of the Polar Research Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. During the International Geophysical Year 1957-58, Dr. Gartlein flew to Antarctica to help with the Visual Observation of the Aurora project. In 1945, the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies and Engineering Physics was established. The Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies was dedicated in October of 1948. It is believed that Newman Laboratory was the first building on the Cornell campus to be air conditioned.
Electronic equipment suffers ill effects from humidity.
Robert R. Wilson, former chief of experimental physics at Los Alamos was named director. Funding for a 300 MeV synchrotron came from the Office of Naval Research in 1949. A 1.1GeV synchrotron was built at the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies in 1952-3. It was followed by a 3.3 GeV machine. The Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory with its 10 GeV syrchrotron was dedicted in October, 1968.