Ernest Lawrence
- Born: August 8, 1901 (Canton, South Dakota)
- Died: August 27, 1958 (Palo Alto, California)
Education
- 1918–1919: St. Olaf College
- 1922: BA, University of South Dakota (Chemistry)
- 1923: MA, University of Minnesota (Physics)
- 1923–1924: University of Chicago (Physics)
- 1925: PhD, Yale University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1925–1927: Yale University, National Research Fellow
- 1927–1928: Yale University, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1928–1930: University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1930–1958: University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics
- 1936–1958: University of California, Berkeley, Director, Radiation Laboratory
Other Positions
- 1942–1945: Manhattan Project, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, Scientific Adviser and Project Director
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1941–1941: Member, Advisory Committee on Uranium Research, National Academy of Sciences
- 1941–1942: Program Chief, S-1 Uranium Section, Office of Scientific Research and Development
- 1942–1946: Member, Executive Committee, S-1 Uranium Section, Office of Scientific Research and Development
- 1956–1958: Member, Board of Trustees, RAND Corporation
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1934: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1937: American Philosophical Society, Member
- 1939: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1957: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Enrico Fermi Award
Archival Resources
University of California at Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California
Online Finding Aid
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Luis W. Alvarez, "Ernest Orlando Lawrence: 1901-1958", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Herbert Childs, An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence (New York: Dutton, 1968)
Nuel Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968)
J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel, and Bruce R. Wheaton, Lawrence and His Laboratory: Nuclear Science at Berkeley (Berkeley : Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, 1981)
J. L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel, Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989)
Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2002)
Barton J. Bernstein, "Four Scientists and the Bomb: The Early Years, 1945-1950," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 18 (1988): 231-263
Angelo Baracca, "'Big Science' vs. 'Little Science': Laboratories and Leading Ideas in Conflict, Nuclear Physics in the Thirties and Forties," Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza 30 (1993): 373-390
Andrew P. Brown, "Liverpool and Berkeley: The Chadwick-Lawrence Letters," Physics Today 49 (1996): 34-40
Carlos D. Galles, "La Polémica Gaviola versus Beams-Lawrence," Saber y Tiempo: Revista de Historia de la Ciencia 2 (1998): 51-64
