The idea of a pulsed magnet ring, fundamental to the synchrotron, appeared in a proposal by Oliphant [1] in 1943 and was followed by the independent discovery of phase stability by Veksler [2] in 1944 and McMillan [3] in 1945. This opened the door to a demonstration of synchrotron acceleration to 8 MeV by Goward and Barnes [4] in a converted betatron at Woolwich Arsenal, UK. The event, which to...