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Cooksey and Lawrence at the 60-inch cyclotron

Image File

96602528

Title

Cooksey and Lawrence at the 60-inch cyclotron

Description

Historical picture of 60" Cyclotron with Donald Cooksey and Ernest O. Lawrence. Published version is a crop of Donald Cooksey. The artificial disintegration of nuclei was one of the purposes of the apparatus Lawrence had designed. In this case, the Laboratory lacked the proper detectors. Lawrence asked his old friend, Donald Cooksey of Yale, a masterly instrument maker, to provide was needed. Cooksey and a student of his, Franz Kurie, built the detectors at Berkeley during the summer of 1932. (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. 16 | Donald Cooksey posing with Ernest Lawrence at the 60-inch cyclotron.

People

Donald Cooksey, Ernest O. Lawrence

Equipment

60 inch cyclotron

TEID Doc ID

XBD 9606-02528.TIF