Ernest Lawrence
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Man
Lawrence in 1939
Meeting at Berkeley in 1940 concerning the planned 184-inch (4.67 m) cyclotron (seen on the blackboard): Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis
The 60-inch (1.52 m) cyclotron soon after completion in 1939. The key figures in its development and use are shown, standing, left to right: Donald Cooksey, Dale R. Corson, Ernest Lawrence, Robert L. Thornton, John Backus, and Winfield Salisbury. In the background are Luis Alvarez and Edwin McMillan.
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff framed by the magnet for the 60-inch cyclotron, 1938; Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Alvarez are shown, in addition to J. Robert Oppenheimer and Robert R. Wilson.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States. Established in 1952, the laboratory is sponsored by the United Sta
Ernest Lawrence
…known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A graduate of the University of South Dakota and University of Minnesota, Lawrence obtained a PhD in physics at Yale in 1925. In 1928, he was hired…
Aerial view of the square LLNL campus (center) from the south. On the south side of LLNL is Sandia National Laboratories and to the north is the neighborhood of Ulmar.
The B83, a nuclear weapon whose warhead was developed by LLNL that is still in the US nuclear stockpile
National Ignition Facility
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