XD9649 Circa 1960s UC Berkeley Newsreel on Ernest Orlando Lawrence and the Invention of the Cyclotron

Ernest Orlando Lawrence, “EO Lawrence Cyclotron UC Berkeley Newsreel”, circa 1960s, features footage of Lawrence working, giving speeches,

“A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley,and patented in 1932. A cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center of a flat cylindrical vacuum chamber along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying electric field. Lawrence was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention”

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