Ernest Lawrence and the Cyclotron

 
The Berkeley campus. Le Conte Hall, in the upper right, was one of  the largest physics buildings in the world at the time, opened in 1924 and helped lure Lawrence. Yale held off Berkeley by offering Lawrence an appointment as assistant professor in 1927, bypassing the normal entry level of instructor. A year later, after Swann left Yale, Lawrence accepted an upgraded Berkeley offer of an associate professorship with an ample research budget and a light teaching load.


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