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11-inch cyclotron

Image File

96602526

Title

11-inch cyclotron

Description

The 11-inch cyclotron installed in Room 329 Le Conte Hall (University of California at Berkeley, UCB), was the first cyclotron to exceed 1 MeV. Livingston and David Sloan, whom Lawrence had found at the General Electric Research Laboratory and persuaded to come to Berkeley as a graduate student, improved cyclotron technique. About the time the great magnet was moving into the new laboratory, the 11-inch cyclotron in LeConte gave out one billionth of an ampere of 1.22 MeV protons. "Lawrence literally danced around the room with glee," Livingston recalled." (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.)

Citation Caption

LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1981, p. 15 | The 11- inch cyclotron, shown installed in Room 329 Le Conte Hall, was the first cyclotron to exceed 1 MeV.

Equipment

11 inch cyclotron

Site

Room 329 Le Conte Hall

TEID Doc ID

XBD 9606-02526.TIF