A national weapons lab in Livermore, Calif. is named for this physicist who invented the cyclotron in 1929
In 1929, 
he invented the cyclotron, a device for accelerating nuclear particles... [DOC] [TLE] Ernest Lawrence - NNDB.com [PAR] Executive summary: Inventor of the cyclotron ... American physicist Ernest 
Lawrence conceived and oversaw construction of the first ... project that 
developed the first atomic weapons, and toward this goal he converted a 
cyclotron into a ... the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in nearby 
Livermore, California, and the... [DOC] [TLE] "The Lawrence Legacy" | Office of the Chancellor [PAR] I am pleased to represent the University of California, Berkeley, on this ... Two 
national laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and ... Ernest and 
Merle discovered in Canton a recent MIT graduate, named Vern ...