2018 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 3-6
In 1967, Professor M. Kimura et al. generated pulse neutrons using 300 MeV Tohoku University Electron Linac and pioneered the TOF method neutron diffraction experiment in the world using Al powder sample. The accelerator driven neutron utilizations were later expanded into KENS and J-PARC in Japan, and became the cornerstone of neutron utilization alongside nuclear reactor neutrons globally. In this review a number of struggles, ingenuities, ideas of developing the new TOF method and the enthusiasms of founders, who were looking only at the glow of the white clouds of a single rose, will be introduced with the innovation of contemporary neutron science.
