print email comment close Lawrence and the Cyclotron URL: http://www.aip.org/history/lawrence/ Description: Exhibition about physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence, whose "invention of the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles, won him the Nobel Prize in 1939." Features biographical information, photos, and information about topics such as Lawrence's development of the Radiation Laboratory (or "Rad Lab") in Berkeley, California, and science during the Cold War. Includes a bibliography and related links. From the American Institute of Physics. Publisher: American Institute of Physics Extra Keywords Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory atomic bomb Manhattan Project Library of Congress Subject Headings: Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958 Particle accelerators People Physicists LII Database Information: Record 6226 created by Jennifer English on 01/24/2005 Last modification on 01/26/2005 Published: 01/24/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6226