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 ...

One of the first atom-smashers of the era was UC Berkeley’s Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the world’s first operational circular particle accelerator, the cyclotron. The journal that started it all: ...

The inventor of the cyclotron, the original atom-smasher ... The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller.” His most recent book is “The Georgetown ...

The year before, technetium-99 was discovered by Emilio Segrè and Glenn Seaborg using the facility's 37-inch cyclotron. Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron's inventor, is standing, third from left.

So said Ernest Orlando Lawrence in what amounted to a self-portrait. Hard work and hard figuring led to his development of the atom-smashing cyclotron and the Nobel Prize of 1939. His hard work ...

Founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as the Berkeley Radiation ... the hills above the UC Berkeley campus is the Advanced Light Source, formerly Lawrence's 184-inch cyclotron, which played a key ...

The E.O. Lawrence Award was established in 1959 to honor Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a leading physics researcher who invented the cyclotron, a type of subatomic particle accelerator, and earned the 1939 ...

where it had been part of Ernest Lawrence’s ‘atom smasher’ — one of the first particle accelerators, known as the 37-inch cyclotron. The plate contained the most important missing piece of ...