Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

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Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

A name tied to one of the most important laboratories in twentieth-century American science, it reflects the world of nuclear research, particle physics, and the rise of "big science" in California. The laboratory was named for Ernest O. Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who pioneered the cyclotron and helped build modern large-scale research culture.

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LRL Accelerators, The 184-Inch Synchrocyclotron

LRL Accelerators, The 184-Inch Synchrocyclotron

by Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

About the author

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory is not a single author in the usual sense, but the name used by a major University of California research institution and, in some cases, by that institution as a corporate author. The laboratory name later became associated with what are now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The name honors Ernest O. Lawrence (1901–1958), the American physicist who invented the cyclotron and won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics. He founded the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, where work in nuclear physics, radioisotopes, and large collaborative research projects helped reshape modern science.

If this book lists Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as the author, it was likely produced by the lab itself rather than by an individual writer. In that case, the most useful background is the story of the institution and of Lawrence, whose energy and scientific ambition made the laboratory famous.