“It is proposed that the National Science Foundation support the purchase, installation, and initial operation of a three‐stage Van de Graaff accelerator to be installed in a new laboratory building to be provided by the University of Pittsburgh as part of its nuclear research program… “…The group in charge of developing the accelerator at the High Voltage Engineering Corporation is confident of achieving about 0.5 microamperes of protons or deuterons at 22 Mev. There is every reason to expect good beams of carbon and oxygen ions at about 60 Mev and 75 Mev respectively…”