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 ...

but later scientific work in this vein confirmed the equation in detail. Particle accelerators advanced rapidly in power and design -- like Ernest Lawrence's circular accelerator, or cyclotron.

Gregg Herken is an emeritus professor of modern American diplomatic history at the University of California, and author of “Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert ...

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 ...