Ernest Orlando Lawrence: References & Edit History
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Herbert Childs, An American Genius (1968), is a biography for the general reader based on more than 800 interviews with Lawrence’s family, friends, and colleagues. Nuel Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer (1968), traces the changing relationship between Lawrence and fellow physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. J.L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel, Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, vol. 1 (1989), is a major study.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 23, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 04, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: South Dakota Hall of Fame - Legacy Ernest Lawrence. | Jun 17, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Atomic Heritage Foundation - Ernest O. Lawrence. | Jun 17, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Institute of Physics - Biography of Ernest O. Lawrence. | Feb 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: NuclearFiles.org - Biography of Ernest Orlando Lawrence. | Feb 23, 2017 | ||
| Changed the year the Radiation Laboratory was established from "1936" to "1931." | Feb 04, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: ORCBS - Biography of Ernest O. Lawrence. | Jun 20, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Department of Energy - Office of Science - Biography of Ernest Orlando Lawrence. | Jun 20, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT - Biography of Ernest Orlando Lawrence. | Jun 20, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Lawrence Hall of Science - Biography of Ernest O. Lawrence. | Jun 20, 2013 | ||
| Added two photographs of Ernest Orlando Lawrence in his Berkeley laboratory. | Jan 13, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Nobel Prize - Ernest Lawrence. | May 05, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Nobel Foundation - Biography of Ernest Lawrence. | Jul 23, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | May 04, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Feb 23, 1999 |
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