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Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project. He had a long career at the University of California, Berkeley where he was a professor of physics. In 1939, Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the cyclotron and its applications. Chemical element number 103 is named "lawrencium" in his honor. He was also the first recipient of the Sylvanus Thayer Award.[1] Ernest O. Lawrence - photo courtesy of http://www. ...
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Early life
Born in Canton, South Dakota, Lawrence attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota, but transferred to the University of South Dakota after his first year. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1922. He received his Master Degree in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 1923. He received his Ph.D. in physics at Yale University in 1925. He remained at Yale as a researcher on the photoelectric effect, becoming an assistant professor in 1927. Canton is a city located in Lincoln County, South Dakota. ...
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In 1928 he was appointed Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and two years later he became Professor, being the youngest at Berkeley. There, he was called the "Atom Smasher,"; the man who "held the key" to atomic energy. "He wanted to do 'big physics,' the kind of work that could only be done on a large scale with a lot of people involved," said Herbert York, the first director of the Lawrence Livermore laboratory, as quoted on the lab's official Web site. Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...
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Cyclotron The invention that brought Lawrence to international fame started out as a sketch on a scrap of paper. While sitting in the library one evening, Lawrence glanced over a journal article and was intrigued by one of the diagrams. The idea was to produce very high energy particles required for atomic disintegration by means of a succession of very small "pushes." Lawrence told his colleagues that he had found a method for obtaining particles of very high energy without the use of any high voltage.
Diagram of cyclotron operation from Lawrence's 1934 patent. The first model of Lawrence's cyclotron was made out of wire and sealing wax and probably cost $25 in all. And it worked: When Lawrence applied 2,000 volts of electricity to his makeshift cyclotron, he got 80,000-volt projectiles spinning around. Through his increasingly larger machines, Lawrence was able to provide the crucial equipment needed for experiments in high energy physics. Around this device, Lawrence built up his Radiation Laboratory, which would become one of the foremost laboratories for physics research. He received a patent for the cyclotron in 1934, which he assigned to the Research Corporation. In 1936 he became Director of the University's Radiation Laboratory and served until his death. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1598x862, 45 KB) Summary Image of the principles of a cyclotron. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1598x862, 45 KB) Summary Image of the principles of a cyclotron. ...
A pair of Dee electrodes with loops of coolant pipes on their surface at the Lawrence Hall of Science. ...
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In November 1939, Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the cyclotron and its applications. The award ceremony was held in Berkeley, California due to the war, with Lawrence receiving his medal from the Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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World War II
Giant calutron plants developed at Lawrence's laboratory were used at Site X during World War II to purify uranium for use in the first atomic bomb. During World War II, Lawrence eagerly helped to ramp up the American investigation of the possibility of a weapon by nuclear fission. His Rad Lab became one of the major centers for wartime atomic research, and it was Lawrence who first introduced J. Robert Oppenheimer into what would become the Manhattan Project. An early champion of the electromagnetic separation method to enrich uranium, Lawrence manufactured his calutrons — specialized forms of mass spectrometers — for the massive separation plants at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His secretary, Helen Griggs married future Nobel chemistry laureate Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942 as they made their way to work on the Manhattan Project in Chicago. Download high resolution version (1417x1087, 847 KB)Alpha Track Calutron at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee from the Manhattan Project, used for uranium enrichment. ...
Download high resolution version (1417x1087, 847 KB)Alpha Track Calutron at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee from the Manhattan Project, used for uranium enrichment. ...
Schematic diagram of uranium isotope separation in the calutron. ...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, served as the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, beginning in 1943. ...
The Manhattan Project resulted in the development of the first nuclear weapons, and the first-ever nuclear detonation, at the Trinity test of July 16, 1945. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air Atomic mass 238. ...
Schematic diagram of uranium isotope separation in the calutron. ...
Mass spectrometry is a technique for separating ions by their mass-to-charge (m/z) ratios. ...
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Helen L. (Griggs) Seaborg (March 2, 1917 â August 29, 2006) was an American-born child welfare advocate and the wife of Nobel Prize chemist Glenn T. Seaborg. ...
Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 â February 25, 1999) was an American chemist prominent in the discovery and isolation of ten transuranic elements including plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium, which was named in his honor. ...
Post-war Career and Legacy After the war, Lawrence campaigned extensively for government sponsorship of large scientific programs. Lawrence was a forceful advocate of "Big Science" with its requirements for big machines and big money. In 1977 the completion of the Shiva laser at LLNL ushered in a new field of big science; laser fusion. ...
For his service to his country, Lawrence was the first recipient of the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy in 1958. The Sylvanus Thayer Award is a military award that is given each year by the United States Military Academy at West Point. ...
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In July 1958, President Eisenhower requested Lawrence travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a proposed treaty with the Soviet Union to ban nuclear weapons testing. Despite suffering from a serious flare-up of his chronic colitis, Lawrence participated, but became ill while in Geneva and was rushed to the hospital at Stanford. He died a month later in Palo Alto, California. Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Just 23 days after his death, the Regents of the University of California voted to rename the Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories after him. The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award was established in his memory in 1959. Chemical element number 103, discovered at LBNL in 1961, is named "lawrencium" in his honor. In 1968 the Lawrence Hall of Science public science center was established in honor of Ernest Lawrence. The museum features a permanent exhibit devoted to Lawrence's life. The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California. ...
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The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay. ...
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award was established in 1959 in honor of a scientist who helped elevate American physics to world leadership. ...
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The Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) is a public science center, run by the University of California, Berkeley. ...
On March 7, 2007 Lawrence's Nobel Prize gold medal was briefly stolen from a low-security glass cabinet in the museum. [2] The perpetrator was Michael Sanchez, a 22 year old local student and part-time nightshift guard, who confessed to using a copied key to remove the medal as part of a prank project. Mr. Sanchez is currently incarcerated in the Santa Rita Jail, New Dublin, pending a USD 10,000 bail. The medal was returned two days later, but will not be presented to the public until May 2008, when a new armoured vault will be constructed for the exhibit's purposes. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
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External links - Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues: Ernest O. Lawrence sources and Links
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Lawrence and the Cyclotron: AIP History Center Web Exhibit
- Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (photos.aip.org search: Ernest Lawrence)
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab:
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence -- The Man, His Lab, His Legacy
- Lawrence and His Laboratory: A Historian's View of the Lawrence Years by Heilbron, Seidel, Wheaton.
- Lawrence Livermore Lab: Who Was Ernest O. Lawrence? (biography)
- NobelPrize.org: Ernest O. Lawrence biography
- Nobel-Winners.com: Ernest Lawrence
- photograph of Leó Szilárd and Ernest O. Lawrence
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist. ...
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Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. ...
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 â February 15, 1988; surname pronounced ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. ...
Alfred Kastler (May 3, 1902 - January 7, 1984) is a French physicist, born in Guebwiller, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966. ...
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced bay-tuh; July 2, 1906 â March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. ...
Portrait of Luis Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 â September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed physicist of Spanish descent, who worked at the University of California, Berkeley. ...
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. ...
Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995), winning the Nobel Prizing for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908; Norrköping, Sweden - April 2, 1995; Djursholm, Sweden) is known as a Swedish plasma physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work developing...
Louis Néel (November 22, 1904 - November 14, 2000) is the Nobel Laureate in Physics of 1970. ...
Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (June 5, 1900, Budapest â February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor who is most notable for inventing holography. ...
John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 â January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. ...
Leon Neil Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity. ...
John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. ...
Leo Esaki (æ±å´ ç²æ¼å¥; correct transcription Esaki Reona; also known as Esaki Leona) (born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. ...
Ivar Giaever (originally spelled Giæver) (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David Josephson for work in solid-state physics. ...
Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect while a 22_year_old graduate student won him a share (with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever) of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics. ...
Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 – October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e. ...
Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars. ...
Aage Niels Bohr (born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 19, 1922) is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. ...
Benjamin Roy Mottelson (born July 9, American-Danish physicist. ...
Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 - May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. ...
Burton Richter (Born March 22, 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ...
Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles: Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹) (born January 27, 1936) is a Michigan-born Chinese American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for the discovery of the subatomic J particle with Burton Richter. ...
Philip Warren Anderson (born December 13, 1923) is an American physicist. ...
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a British physicist. ...
John Hasbrouck van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. ...
Semenov (on the right) and Kapitsa (on the left), portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian ÐÑÑÑ ÐÐµÐ¾Ð½Ð¸Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ ÐапиÑа) (July 9, 1894 â April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937. ...
Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, American physicist. ...
Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American physicist. ...
Sheldon Glashow at Harvard University Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ...
Abdus Salam at Nobel Prize ceremony with the King of Sweden Dr. Abdus Salam (Urdu: عبد Ø§ÙØ³ÙاÙ
) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab â 21 November 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which...
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ...
James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. ...
Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923) is an American nuclear physicist. ...
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920) is an Dutch physicist. ...
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921–April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. ...
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (born April 20, 1918) is a Swedish physicist. ...
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American physicist. ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician. ...
There is another William Fowler who was a Scottish poet and uncle of William Drummond of Hawthornden William Alfred Willy Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. ...
Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist. ...
Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925) is a Dutch physicist. ...
Klaus von Klitzing, (born June 28, 1943 in German occupied Åroda Wielkopolska) is a German physicist. ...
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906âMay 25, 1988) was a German physicist. ...
Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German-born physicist who shared with Heinrich Rohrer half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ...
Heinrich Rohrer (born June 6, 1933) is a Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig, received half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ...
Johannes Georg Bednorz (born May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Muller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable. ...
Karl Alexander Müller (born April 20, 1927) is a Swiss physicist who, along with J. Georg Bednorz, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at higher temperatures than had previously been thought attainable. ...
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ...
Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932) is an American physicist. ...
Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ...
Norman Foster Ramsey (born August 27, 1915) is an American physicist. ...
Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922 in Görlitz, Germany) is an American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ...
Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ...
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930) is a U.S. physicist. ...
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 â February 15, 1999) was an American physicist. ...
Richard E. Taylor Professor Richard E. Taylor, CC , FRS , FRSC , Ph. ...
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932) is a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ...
Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a French physicist. ...
Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ...
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Bertram Neville Brockhouse (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. ...
Clifford Glenwood Shull (September 23, 1915 - March 31, 2001) was a Nobel prize-winning American physicist. ...
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Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ...
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Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. ...
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American physicist. ...
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the Ãcole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ...
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Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is an American theoretical physicist who, with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. ...
Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949) is a Bell Labs physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin. ...
Daniel Chee Tsui 崔琦 (pinyin: Cuī Qí)(born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. ...
Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft [ut-hooft] (The prefix ât is pronounced as âutâ and stands for âhetâ) (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ...
Martinus J.G. Veltman (Tini for short) (born June 27, 1931) is a 1999 Nobel prize laureate for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics, work done at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ...
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (also Alfyorov) (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров) (born March 15, 1930) is a Soviet/Russian physicist with a Belarusian origin. ...
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph. ...
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Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ...
Wolfgang Ketterle (born October 21, 1957, in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German physicist and a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced a Bose-Einstein condensate. ...
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Masatoshi Koshiba (å°æ´ æä¿ Koshiba Masatoshi, born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture -) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. ...
Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931) is an Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist. ...
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov (Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов) (born June 25, 1928, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR.) is a Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field...
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург) (born October 4, 1916 in Moscow) is a Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the...
Anthony James Leggett (born March 26, 1938), is Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. ...
David Gross and his wife in Santa Barbara David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American physicist and string theorist. ...
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Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. ...
Roy Jay Glauber (born 1 September 1925) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. ...
John L. Hall (born 1934) is a JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) fellow and Physics lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder Physics department. ...
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George Smoot celebrating his Nobel Prize on October 3, 2006 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ...
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