The 60-inch cyclotron (circa August 1938) was an enormous machine for its day. It used a magnet weighing 220 tons (shown here). Dr. Ernest Lawrence would later build a 184-inch cyclotron and go on to win the Nobel Prize in what year? Extra points if you can name the man at the top with a pipe in his mouth.
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The fellow with the pipe looks like Robert Oppenheimer to me.
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I just want to know which one was the QA Manager!!! 😉
Robert Oppenheimer is seated at the top with his signature pipe. Earnest Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939, for “for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements,” according to http://www.nobelprize.org.
It’s Oppi! You can tell from his vivid eyes.
It’s Oppi! You can tell from his eyes!
Anyone able to identify any of the other people in this photo?
Ernest Lawrence?
The correct answers: 1939 and Robert Openheimer.
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Dr. Ernest Lawrence won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939. Extra Credit Question: Is it J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Ah yes, those were meaty days of breaking new ground, new science, accelerating particles. A real team effort. Its exciting just reviewing it. But in retrospect, many would not be so excited to see the radiations and bomb destruction that their efforts led to.
Nobel Prize in physics in 1939
I think the gentleman with the pipe is Robert Oppenheimer
It is Julius Robert Oppenheimer