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09/17/10
Ask 18-year-old Murray Hill resident Peter Ver Bryck Heuer what his interests are and you'll get an advanced physics lesson. While some teens are listening to Smashing Pumpkins, Peter and his equally brainy partner, Heidi Baumgartner, 18, of Queens, N.Y., are busy smashing atoms. 
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Peter Heuer, 18, of the Murray Hill neighborhood of Annapolis, was homeschooled from kindergarten by his mother, Karen Heuer. Peter shows off an image on his laptop of the scrap iron that is being machined for use in a six-ton cyclotron he is helping building in Newport News, Va.Find Us On Facebook
Their radiant glow doesn't come from a little radioactive leak - which is a risk - but from the knowledge that they are about to become the youngest scientific team on the planet to build an atom smasher, also known as a particle accelerator. Their research-grade cyclical particle accelerator, or cyclotron, also will be one of the smallest, weighing...
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