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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 Laboratory).

From Lawrence and His Laboratory, Nuclear Science at Berkeley 1931-1961 by J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel, Bruce R. Wheaton, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Office For History Of Science And Technology University Of California, Berkeley, 1981:

• Early particle accelerators required physicists to maintain...

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

• U.C. Berkeley campus circa 1940.

From Lawrence And His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume 1 By J.L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel, University of California Press, 1989:

• An accelerating particle spirals...

Early Particle Accelerators

From Lawrence and His Laboratory, Nuclear Science at Berkeley 1931-1961 by J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel, Bruce R. Wheaton, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Office For History Of Science And Technology University Of California, Berkeley, 1981:

• Rolf Wideröe's diagrams...
• Lawrence's notes...
• An early sketch...

Lawrence And His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume 1 By J.L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel, University of California Press, 1989:

• Schematic...
• Scientists working...
• Van de Graaff generator.
• David Sloan working... (LBL).

Lawrence And His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume 1 By J.L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel, University of California Press, 1989:

• The original Radiation Laboratory...
• Rad Lab staff...
• Robert Stone and John Lawrence...

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

• "Cyclotroneers..." (LBL News Magazine.)
• Ernest Lawrence at the controls... (LBL News Magazine.)
• Posing with the newly completed... (LBL News Magazine.)

Depression era photos by Russell Lee:

• Refugee families...
• Migrant family...
• Men at the San Francisco State...

Big Science

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

• A Rad Lab chalkboard... (Photo by Dr Donald Cooksey).

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

• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's scientific...
• Rad Lab camaraderie...

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

• Participants at the seventh... (Benjamin Couprie photo, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.)

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

• Left to right: Ernest Orlando Lawrence...
• Diagram from "Lawrence and the Bomb," "A main obstacle "section: (From Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, by Henry De Wolf Smyth.)
• A "racetrack..."

Lawrence and His Laboratory, Nuclear Science at Berkeley 1931-1961 by J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel, Bruce R. Wheaton, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Office For History Of Science And Technology University Of California, Berkeley, 1981.

• Edwin M. McMillan... (Photo courtesy of the Oakland Tribune.)
• Early view...
• Women employees...
• Lawrence challenged...
• Work took a heavy toll...
• Lawrence exhorting...

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

• Oppenheimer, Fermi, and Lawrence. (LBL News Magazine.)
• Government committee of scientists... (LBL News Magazine.)

Oakland Tribune:

• Edwin M. McMillan, cyclotroneer, recreating...

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

• General Groves...
• Ernest O. Lawrence lunching... (Photo by Fred G Clark.)

Lawrence and His Laboratory, Nuclear Science at Berkeley 1931-1961 by J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel, Bruce R. Wheaton, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Office For History Of Science And Technology University Of California, Berkeley, 1981.

• Relative sizes, magnet weight, and cost... (LBL News Magazine.)
• "Old Town..."
• View of tracks...
• Computers helped...

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

• Lawrence and staff posing... (LBL News Magazine.)
• Schematic diagram of a linear accelerator.
• Construction on the "Bevatron."

Lawrence and His Laboratory, Nuclear Science at Berkeley 1931-1961 by J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel, Bruce R. Wheaton, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Office For History Of Science And Technology University Of California, Berkeley, 1981.

• Edward Teller...
• Mark I's sixty-foot long...

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

• Early picture of the Livermore...
• Albert Ghiorso...
• Dedication of the Lawrence...

From Physics Today vol. 1, no. 7 (Nov. 1948), p. 17

• Men singing; text of song