Pioneering physicist Ernest O. Lawrence transformed American science over nearly three decades. The inventor of the cyclotron, the ancestor of such advanced machines as Europe’s Large Hadron ...

Photo: Four-inch copper-encased cyclotron, one of Ernest Lawrence's ealiest models When Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) got his PhD in physics, the hottest topic was bombarding the atom's ...

On January 26, 1932, Ernest Lawrence applied for a patent on the cyclotron. In the spring of 1929, Ernest Lawrence was leafing through the German journal Archivfür Elektrotechnik when he came across ...

Once they did, a whole new world — a nuclear one — would open up. One of the first atom-smashers of the era was UC Berkeley’s Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the world’s first operational circular ...