Lawrence. Ernest

LAWRENCE, ERNEST O. (1901-1958). An American physicist who invented the cyclotron in 1929. Both the element lawrenciuni and the Lawrence Livermore Research Laboratory at the University of California were named alter him. 

Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954). First to achieve a controlled nuclear fission reaction (1939) basic research on subatomic particles. Nobel Prize 1938. Lawrence, Ernest O. (1901-1958). Invented the cyclotron in which first synthetic elements were created. Nobel Prize 1939. 

Seaborg worked hard to ensure that science education was not slighted and that science would be seen as a tremendous boon to humanity. Along these lines, it was his leadership that helped to bring into existence the Lawrence Hall of Science at Berkeley as a tribute to Ernest Orlando Lawrence, see also Americium Curium Lawrence, Ernest Plutonium. 

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