1930's Science and Technology | "The Evolution of the Cyclotron"

Lecture

By: Ernest O. Lawrence

Date: December 11, 1951

Source: Lawrence, Ernest O. "The Evolution of the Cyclotron." Nobel lecture, December 11, 1951. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1939/lawrence-lecture... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed October 16, 2002).

About the Author: Ernest O. Lawrence (1901–1958) was born in Canton, South Dakota. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1925. Three years later he obtained a position of Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Berkeley. Lawrence was appointed the university's youngest professor in 1930, and in 1936 he also became Director of the university's Radiation Lab. Lawrence made many contributions to nuclear physics, including the...