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Lamb, Willis, 259 , 377
Lange, Fritz, 50 , 57
Laslett, L. Jackson, 233 , 238 , 264 , 343
Latimer, Wendell, 181
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 15 , 63 , 150 , 166 , 194 ;
and discharge tube, 52 , 54 –6
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando:
and Arthur Compton, 402 , 472 ;
and cyclotron, 82 , 86 , 87 , 98 –101, 113 , 115 , 130 –3, 162 , 164 , 195 , 208 , 214 , 265 , 271 , 311 , 319 –20, 366 , 445 , 467 , 470 , 472 , 474 –6, 478 , 480 , 482 , 483 , 510 , 514 –5, 516 ;
and deuterium/deuteron research, 154 , 155 , 157 , 167 , 169 , 171 , 180 , 185 , 187 , 270 ;
early research at University of California, 24 ;
engagement and marriage to Molly Blumer, 113 , 130 ;
fund-raising efforts, 27 , 102 , 108 , 119 , 187 , 123 , 214 , 215 , 253 , 474 , 476 , 480 , 482 , 483 ;
and medical application of research, 190 –1, 209 , 215 , 337 , 389 , 390 , 392 , 393 , 395 , 400 –1, 403 ;
and Nobel prize, 84 , 351 –2, 475 , 485 –9;
and Oppenheimer, 174 , 254 –6;
and patents, 111 , 113 , 192 –6;
patrons of, 108 , 253 ;
and radioactivity research, 173 , 181 , 186 , 188 –91, 198 , 270 , 410 ;
recruitment of, 21 –3, 99 , 208 –10;
recruitment of associates by, 25 , 226 , 258 , 494 , 501 , 520 ;
relations with the University, 99 , 114 , 208 ;
and Segrè, 366 –7;
and David Sloan; 25 , 89 ;
and Sloan tube, 119 , 123 , 125 –6;
work methods and relations with staff, 89 , 226 –7, 233 –4, 241 –2, 252 ;
wartime work, 522 –3
Lawrence, Gunda, 392
Lawrence, John H.:
medical research at Laboratory, 229 , 233 , 238 , 272 , 279 , 287 , 357 –9, 389 , 390 , 399 –403
Le Conte Hall, 19
Lehmann, Eric, 228
Leuschner, Armin O., 18 , 98 , 107
Lewis, E. Percival, 19
Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 10 , 24 , 98 , 142 , 181 –2, 259
Libby, Willard, 258 , 405
Lick Observatory, 19
Linac, 76 –8, 117
Lindemann, F.A., 327 –8
Linford, Leo, 92 , 232
Litton, Charles, 238 , 275 –6
Liverpool University:
and cyclotron, 335 , 337 –8, 342 , 345
Livingood, John J. (Jack), 227 , 229 , 238 , 245 , 355 –6, 379 , 382 –4, 396 , 447
Livingston, M. Stanley: 89 ,
as graduate student at University of California, 226 ;
at Cornell, 262 –3;
and cyclotron, 93 –6, 101 , 122 , 130 –1, 166 , 263 , 266 , 289 –91, 311 –3, 486 , 494
Livingston-Sloan oscillator, 274 –5
Loeb, Leonard B., 20 –3, 106 , 258
Loomis, Alfred L., 205 , 477 , 483 , 494 , 497
Loveridge, Laurence, 28
Lyman, Ernest, 233 , 354 , 376