Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
National laboratory located near Berkeley, California, U.S.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley, California, United States. Established in 1931 by the University of California (UC), the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the UC system. Ernest Lawrence, who won the Nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron, founded the lab and served as its director until his death in 1958. Located in the Berkeley Hills, the lab overlooks the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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AI Generated- August 26, 1931Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was founded by Ernest Lawrence as the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley.
- 1930sErnest Lawrence pushed to create larger and larger machines for physics research, courting private philanthropists for funding.
- 1939Ernest Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the cyclotron.
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