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Description
Photograph featured on page 127 of Jane Morgan's Electronics in the West: "Ernest O. Lawrence (right) and M. Stanley Livingston with first large cyclotron, 1933. Strong magnetic field (from Federal's electromagnet) and alternating electrical charge from high voltage oscillator (e.g., vacuum tubes) caused particles to spin in the round vacuum chamber at the center fast enough to smash atoms in target material." The original caption for the photograph, as received from Lawrence Radiation Laboratory: "Photograph was taken in 1934 in the 'old' Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. M. Stanley Livingston, now of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (left) and the late Ernest O. Lawrence stand in front of the 27-inch cyclotron. Lawrence invented the cyclotron for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, and founded what is now named the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. The cyclotron in the photograph was modified in 1936 as a 37-inch machine. With this instrument, neutrons were studied, radioisotopes were created, the first artificial element, technitium, wa discovered, and studies were inititated in biology and medicine with radioisotopes and heavy particles. The program of the Laboratory is supported by the Atomic Energy Commission."
Type
image
Format
Black & White|Polaroid print
Identifier
FD640716-9258-4014-AC77-243009828212 2003-35-406
Subject
Federal Telegraph Company Cyclotrons University of California, Berkeley Electromagnets (LCSH) Particle accelerators (LCSH) Physicists Quantum theory (LCSH) Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)
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