Cyclotron, Ernest Lawrence, Weapons Development (IAEA, CERN, DOE, AEC)

In 1929 Ernest Lawrence – then associate professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the US – invented the cyclotron, a device for accelerating nuclear particles to high velocities without the use of high voltages. Lawrence was granted US patent 1948384 for the cyclotron on 20 February 1934.

Ernest Orland Lawrence, PhD presentation…