Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Office of the Director.
LBL Office of the Director administrative files of Donald Cooksey, 1958-1963.
These are the files of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) administrator Harold A. Fidler and business manager Wallace B. Reynolds, and cover the administration and operations of the lab under the directorship of Edwin M. McMillan. During this period, the LBL assisted in the development of tests, instrumentation, and analysis of nuclear testing in Nevada and the Pacific Proving Grounds, and the Livermore site became the location for most of the Laboratory's nuclear reactor and weapons development. These files consist of general administrative and contractual records as well correspondence regarding research projects and programs. Topics include the Atomic Energy Commission; development of tests, instrumentation, and analysis of nuclear testing in Nevada and the Pacific Proving Grounds; nuclear reactor and weapons development at Lawrence Livermore; and general subjects such as biology and medicine, the Pluto program, the Sherwood Project, and the Weapons Project.
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
McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
Reynolds, Wallace B.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Office of the Director.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Sherwood Project.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Biology.
Nuclear aircraft.
Nuclear weapons -- Development.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing.
Physics -- Administration.
Proving grounds -- California.
Cooksey, Donald
Fidler, Harold Alvin.
Reynolds, Wallace B.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
AIP-ICOS
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