Plates Section 2
Plate 5.1
The early staff of the Radiation Laboratory in the transition year 1932/3
assembled around the 27-inch cyclotron. Left to right: Jack Livingood, Frank
Exner, M.S. Livingston, David Sloan, Lawrence, Milton White, Wesley
Coates, L. Jackson Laslett, and Commander T. Lucci. LBL.
Plate 5.2
The staff of the Radiation Laboratory in 1938 assembled under the yoke of
the 60-inch cyclotron magnet.
Top, left to right: Alex Langsdorf, S.J. Simmons, Joseph Hamilton, David
Sloan, Robert Oppenheimer, William Brobeck, Robert Cornog, Robert
Wilson, Eugene Viez, J.J. Livingood.
Center, left to right: John Backus, Wilfred Mann, Paul Aebersold, Edwin M.
McMillan, Ernest Lyman, Martin Kamen, D.C. Kalbfell, William Salisbury.
Bottom, left to right: John Lawrence, Robert Serber, Franz Kurie, R.T. Birge,
Ernest Lawrence, Donald Cooksey, Arthur Snell, Luis Alvarez, and
Philip Abelson.
Plate 5.3
A Rad Lab party at Di Biasi's restaurant in Albany.
From left to right, standing: Robert Cornog, Ernest Lawrence, Luis Alvarez,
Molly Lawrence, Emilio Segrè;
second row: Gerry Alvarez (seated), Betty Thornton, Paul Aebersold
(standing), Iva Dee Hiatt, Edwin McMillan, Bill Farley;
first row: Donald Cooksey, Robert Thornton, and Bob Sihlis. LBL.
Plate 5.4
Oppenheimer and Lawrence flanking Fermi, probably early 1940.
Courtesy of LBL.
Plate 6.1
The dee system at the MIT cyclotron. The large cylinders are the
quarter-wave lines. Livingston and Blewett, 158.
Plate 6.2
Laboratory staff lolling around the poles and dee supports of the 60-inch
cyclotron.
Left to right above: Alvarez, McMillan;
left to right below: Cooksey, Lawrence, Thornton, Backus, Salisbury. LBL.
Plate 6.3
Donald Cooksey, G.K. Green, and the mechanism of the dee stem. LBL.
Plate 6.4
Livingston at the Cornell cyclotron. Courtesy of Lois Livingston.
Plate 8.1
Water shielding of the 37-inch cyclotron. LBL.
Plate 8.2
Livingood and Seaborg after a successful hunt. They are hurrying through
Sather Gate (the south entrance to the Campus) to the post office to send
their latest findings to the Physical review . Note the dress for the occasion.
Courtesy of G.T. Seaborg.
Plate 8.3
Emilio Segrè's ionization chamber, modeled on one used in Rome and in
great demand at the Laboratory where precision instrumentation was in
short supply.
Plate 8.4
Robert Stone and John Lawrence treating Robert Penney at the 60-inch
neutron port. LBL.
Plate 8.5
Radioautograph of a tomato leaf at the top of a
growing tomato plant thirty-six hours after the plant
had absorbed a solution containing P32 . Arnon,
Stout, and Sipos, Am. jl botany, 27 (1940), 794.
Plate 9.1
Luis Alvarez at work in the Rad Lab. LBL.
Plate 9.2
Tracks of fission products. The upper thick bright line is the record of the
uranium film; the tracks of the oppositely recoiling fragments run from the
film at about 60°. Corson and Thornton, PR, 55 (1939), 509.
Plate 9.3
Edwin McMillan at about the time of the discovery of neptunium.
Courtesy of the Oakland Tribune .
Plate 10.1
Lawrence, the Comptons, Bush, Conant, and Loomis discuss the proposal
for the 184-inch cyclotron in Berkeley in March 1940.
Left to right: Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant,
Karl Compton, and Alfred Loomis. LBL.
Plate 10.2
Announcement of Lawrence's Nobel prize on the Laboratory blackboard. LBL.