Berkeley Lab Founder Ernest O. Lawrence Demonstrates the Cyclotron Concept

In this short video, Berkeley Lab Founder and Nobelist Ernest O. Lawrence uses a mechanical model to explain how the cyclotron works.

[@izchicago4524]

Thanks for posting this beautiful and extremely valuable clip. I always use it in my lectures.

[@aegontan686]

Josh Hartnett did a great job

[@steveg103]

That is such a cool demonstration model!

[@pwylll]

This is an awesome demonstration

[@SailaMaham]

That is a very good model.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

It should rock left and right to simulate the bend in the path induced by the magnetic field, was the base track groved?

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Pie slice shape ramps would simulate the longer acceleration as the particles pass to the outside as they speed up.

[@SofaaKing2]

The model he shows is literal, physical. It represents the 'electric' thing that really happens. Cyclotrons are used to create 'radiation' for study etc...

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Lawrence built the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley in 1931 and was made its director. One of Lawrence's cyclotrons produced technetium, the first element that does not occur in nature to be made artificially

[@vinayakamohan2121]

oh and also a hella amount of kinetic energy

[@MIGKRAV]

Genius.

[@spencerpanes8748]

This is genius

[@SciHeartJourney]

Josh Harnet portrayed Ernest Lawrence in the movie Oppenheimer. He was the one that built that giant apparatus that led to an experiment verifying nuclear fission was possible. They barely showed it. What a wasted opportunity that was. 🤦

[@TWWIW]

The grandfather of the particle accelerator

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

More the grandson of the cathode ray and the linear accelerator.

[@hydrorecords]

WTF?