Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Office of the Director.
LBL Office of the Director administrative files of Donald Cooksey, 1946-1957.
These are the files of Assistant Director Donald Cooksey and cover the administration and operation of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) during the immediate post-War period and the latter part of Ernest O. Lawrence's directorship, and contain correspondence, plans and reports, lists, administrative and travel files, and drawings. Subjects include: Atomic Energy Commission, chemistry and physics, cyclotrons and synchrotrons, linear accelerators, patents and inventions, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and Van de Graaff machines.
The laboratory was founded as the University of California Radiation Laboratory in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a University of California Berkeley physicist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened the door to high-energy physics. It is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory, operated by the University of California. The name of the laboratory has evolved since its founding: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (1931-1958), the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1959-1995), and currently the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1995-present).
Donald Cooksey (1892-1977) was a fellow physicist and close friend of Ernest Lawrence, founder of the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California (now the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Cooksey spent the early years of the laboratory designing cyclotron chambers (in 1937 he was the chief designer of the 37-inch cyclotron) and was the first person to hold the position of assistant director. He was then named associate director when the position was created in 1943 and remained in that role until his retirement in 1959 from the laboratory.
Cooksey, Donald
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Office of the Director.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Chemistry
Cyclotrons
Linear accelerators.
Physics -- Administration.
Synchrotrons.
Van de Graaff generator.
Patents lcgft
Cooksey, Donald
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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