Ernest o lawrence timeline photos

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Youth & Early Career

From An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence by Herbert Childs, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968.

• Lawrence (top center) with his parents and brother.
• Stanley Tobiason, Ernest, and John Lawrence...
• Ernest as the young student...
• With fellow Midwesterner... (Courtesy of Jesse Beams.)
• Ernest and Molly Lawrence... (Courtesy of Dr. Donald Cooksey).
• Lawrence as a young man. (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory).

From the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab Image Library:

• Ernest Lawrence about the time...

From An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence by Herbert Childs, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968:

• Lawrence as a young man.
• Early cyclotroneers include... (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory).
• Table-Top cyclotron. (Lawrence Radiation

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  Scientist of the Day - Ernest O. Lawrence

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  Ernest stad i florida Lawrence, an American physicist, was born Aug. 8, 1901.   Lawrence took a position at the University of California in 1928, and he soon began looking for a way to accelerate atomic particles such as protons to high speeds, so that they could be used to bombard other atoms. By 1930 (with the considerable help of M. Stanley Livingston), he had developed what he called a "cyclotron". The first one was a little round electromagnet sandwich, rather like a Whopper, only instead of a meat patty, there were two small hollow brass semi-circular containers inside, called “Dees”, because of their shape. The particles were injected into a hole in the center of the Dees, and then the electric current was alternated so that each particle moved in a tight spiral between the magnets, going faster and faster as

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The University of South Dakota (USD) Photography Collections contains hundreds of images depicting floats, bands, celebrities, politicians, and USD presidents during Dakota Day parades. In the 1950s elaborate Dakota Day floats constructed by fraternities, sororities, independent student groups, and clubs took considerable effort to build and used that year’s theme to convey a message, usually a nasty way to defeat the opposing football team.

In the 1957 parade, the Chemistry Club float highlighted the cyclotron, a device that produced high energy to smash atoms. The inventor of the cyclotron was South Dakota native Ernest O. Lawrence, a 1922 chemistry major alum of USD who went on to obtain a master’s degree at the University of Minnesota and a doctorate at Yale in physics. This “American Genius” received the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the cyclotron that not only smashed atoms but was also instrumental in developing chemicals used in the treatment of cancer. During