Berkeley and Its Physics Heritage

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• 作者：Per F. Dahl
• 关键词：Ernest O. Lawrence ; John H. Lawrence ; John LeConte ; Raymond T. Birge ; Merle A.Tuve ; Edwin M. McMillan ; Luis Alvarez ; University of California at Berkeley ; Radiation Laboratory ; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ; Lawrence Hall of Science ; cyclotron
• 刊名：Physics in Perspective (PIP)
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：March 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：8
• 期：1
• 页码：90-101
• 全文大小：285 KB

文摘

I first sketch the settlement of Berkeley, California, the founding of the University of California at Berkeley, and the origin of its Department of Physics. I then discuss the pivotal role that Ernest O. Lawrence (1901–1958) and his invention and subsequent development of the cyclotron played in physics at Berkeley after his arrival there in 1928 through the Second World War and beyond. I close by commenting on the Lawrence Hall of Science, the educational center and science museum conceived as a living memorial to Lawrence.