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	Los Alamos National Laboratory
		The Laboratory was founded in the midst of World War II as part of what is now called the Manhattan Project to provide nuclear weapons to help end the war.
		Franz Kurie of the UC Radiation Laboratory was not released by Lawrence.
		The plutonium was made by the 60-inch Crocker medical cyclotron at the UC Radiation Laboratory by the bombardment of uranium-238 by deuterons, the ions of heavy water (deuterium).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/LANL.html (13232 words)

	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay.
		The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), formerly the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and usually shortened to Berkeley Lab or LBL is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory in Berkeley, California conducting unclassified scientific research.
		After the laboratory was scooped on a number of fundamental discoveries that they felt they ought to have made, the "cyclotroneers" began to collaborate more closely with the theoretical physicists in the Berkeley Department of Physics, led by Robert Oppenheimer.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/LBL (733 words)

	Synthesis, a UC Davis Cancer Center Publication - History of proton-beam therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., the Berkeley machine is modified to a 76-inch cyclotron.
		Magnets built at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (renamed the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) move to Davis.
		The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory at UC Davis is dedicated in 1966.
	www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu /synthesis/features/history.html (530 words)

	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), formerly the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab) and usually shortened to Berkeley Lab or LBL, is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research.
		The Laboratory Director is appointed by the Regents of the University of California and reports to the President of the University of California.
		The lab was founded as the Radiation Laboratory on August 26, 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a site for centering physics research around his new instrument, the cyclotron (a type of particle accelerator for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berkeley_Radiation_Laboratory (970 words)

	Berkeley, A City in History Chapter 7
		Berkeley was not only deeply affected by the war and post war period, it also played a major role in creating the nuclear specter that was so much a part of the life and culture of those years.
		Berkeley was particularly affected by the African American migration, the city's fl population growing from 3,000 to more than 12,000 between 1940 and 1945.
		Berkeley's fl heritage goes back to the arrival of Pete and Hannah Byrne in 1859, but the African American population remained small for the rest of the nineteenth century.
	berkeleypubliclibrary.org /system/Chapter7.html (3858 words)

	Women in Chemistry: Helen Vaughn Michel
		Michel worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, and she was a pioneer in the use of high-tech chemical instruments for studying archaeological artifacts.
		While in college, she took a part-time job at the UC Berkeley Radiation Laboratory as an assistant in nuclear chemistry and, upon her graduation, accepted a higher-ranking, full-time position at the lab.
		Berkeley Scientists Report First Evidence That Dinosaur Extinction Cause by Meteorite Impact, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory National Laboratory site, reprinted from Fall 1979 LBL News Magazine.
	www.chemheritage.org /women_chemistry/career/michel.html (734 words)

	Berkeley Lab's Nine Nobel Laureates
		On the day of the Japanese surrender, Ernest Lawrence, the Director of UC Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, told his colleague, biochemist Melvin Calvin, that it was "time to do something useful with radioactive carbon." Organizing a team of researchers from Lawrence's "Rad Lab," Calvin attacked the photosynthesis question.
		Upon his retirement in 1980, the unique, doughnut-shaped three-story laboratory on the UC Berkeley campus, which houses scientists in that division, was renamed the Melvin Calvin Laboratory.
		The story is that Berkeley Lab physicist Donald Glaser was admiring the smooth, clean lines formed by the stream of bubbles in a glass of beer which he was in the process of imbibing.
	www.lbl.gov /LBL-PID/Nine-Nobel-laureates.html (3362 words)

	Santa Cruz Indymedia: The UC is a prominent site of military research (DOWNLOAD the .pdf)
		Today, the three laboratories (including Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) have a combined UC workforce of 18,000 and operate on federally financed budgets totaling nearly $4 billion.2 Along with nuclear weapons research, LANL and LLNL conduct civilian studies as well, such as energy, space, and medical research.
		Under the guise of fundamental scientific research, backed by one of the nations most respected institutes of higher learning, laboratory scientists and bureaucrats are able to continue their legacy of building weapons of mass destruction by abusing the reputation of this university, its faculty, and its students.
		The creation of the nuclear weapons laboratories, and the continued management of these factories of destruction by the University of California sets a precedent to other institutions, faculty, and most importantly the impressionable student body that military science is not only important, but somehow ethical and necessary.
	santacruz.indymedia.org /newswire/display/17411/index.php (1703 words)

	The War on Iraq is a Nuclear War
		But researchers have shown that the Pentagon has been fully aware of the consequences of what is called "low level radiation" since 1942, when depleted uranium was first suggested for development as a military weapon under the Manhattan Project.
		Radiation has caused the geometric rise of cancers in the US - 1 in 3 Americans compared to 1 in 20 before the second World War.
		Leuren Moret was formerly employed at the Lawrence Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, and the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /moret_nuclear.htm (1095 words)

	Edwin McMillan Summary
		McMillan was director of the radiation facility at the University of California, Berkeley.
		He joined the staff of the University of California, Berkeley upon receiving his doctorate, moving to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory when it was founded at Berkeley in 1934.
		In 1946, he became a full professor at Berkeley, and in 1954 he was appointed associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, being promoted to director in 1958, where he stayed until his retirement in 1973.
	www.bookrags.com /Edwin_McMillan (3223 words)

	Origin of the Radiation Warning Sign (Trefoil)
		The Office of Civil Defense originally intended fallout shelters to use the radiation warning symbol with the circle in the center and the three blades, but this idea was rejected because a fallout shelter represents safety whereas the radiation warning symbol represents a hazard.
		The three-bladed radiation warning symbol, as we currently know it, was "doodled" out at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley sometime in 1946 by a small group of people.
		To me, the magenta symbol is striking similarity to a commercially available radiation warning sign, used before 1947, that consisted of a small red dot with four or five red lightening bolts radiating outwards, a design very similar to that on electrical hazard warning signs.
	www.orau.org /ptp/articlesstories/radwarnsymbstory.htm (690 words)

	Roadmap to the Project: Experiments List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Approximately 129 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia and 100 patients with chronic lymphatic leukemia were treated at the Radiation Laboratory and the Donner Laboratory of the University of California in Berkeley and San Francisco.
		conducted in 1942 at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley on the uptake of radiostrontium by bone tumors.
		Patients were selected for radiation therapy by hospital staff physicians and radiation treatments were administered as part of the normal course of therapy for these patients.
	www.eh.doe.gov /ohre/roadmap/experiments/0491docc.html (11270 words)

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		In addition, complete recovery from sub-lethal injury may not occur in a considerable portion of individuals exposed and this factor of chronic injury may be expected to occur in a much higher proportion of subjects than might be expected from sub-lethal chemical injuries from most, if not all, of the known war gases.
		Inasmuch as this accumulation by the plants occurs chiefly in the roots which are relatively sensitive to radiation, it can be readily appreciated that significant areas of ground may be made essentially sterile insofar as their agricultural se is concerned.
		Inasmuch as 100 r of total body radiation can be expected to product, in a significant number of individuals, some degree of irreversible radiation damage, it would appear that a flux of gamma rays at this intensity would render such an area essentially unhabitable.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet4/brief4.gfr/tab_o/br4o5a.txt (3096 words)

	The Transuranium People: The Inside Story. By Darleane C. Hoffman, Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn T. Seaborg
		The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (formerly the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory), with which the authors of this fascinating book have long been affiliated during what has been described as a “golden age” of discovery, is the site of the discovery of more transuranium elements than any other laboratory in the world.
		Chapter 5, “Berkelium and Californium” (25 pp.), discusses the first elements to be discovered after the transfer of Seaborg’s group from the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory to Berkeley with emphasis on the use of cation exchange techniques for their isolation.
		This is one of the reasons for the controversies and friendly competition between workers at Berkeley and Dubna and elsewhere concerning the discoveries of elements 102 and heavier.
	chemeducator.org /bibs/0007002/720124gk.htm (1216 words)

	David J. Gross - Autobiography
		Berkeley was, for many reasons, at that time a very exciting place.
		It was at the center of the remarkable social and political developments of the 1960's - the fight for social justice and the opposition to the war in Vietnam.
		After Berkeley I found Harvard rather formal and unfriendly, but the Society of Fellows was a wonderful experience.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/gross-autobio.html (1650 words)

	UC Davis: Spotlight: Crocker Nuclear Lab at 40
		This is a diagram of a cyclotron by Ernest Lawrence of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, from the original patent application.
		The cyclotron was originally built at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (now the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and some components date back to the 1930s.
		The facility was named the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory in honor of UC Regent William Crocker, who had been a generous supporter of the original Berkeley Radiation Lab.
	www.ucdavis.edu /spotlight/0706/crocker_history.html (660 words)

	Emilio Segrè
		After a visit to Ernest O. Lawrence's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, he was sent a molybdenum strip from the laboratory's cyclotron deflector in 1937 which was emitted anamolous forms of radioactivity.
		After careful chemical and theoretical analysis, Segrè was able to prove that some of the radiation was being produced by a previously unknown element, dubbed technetium, and was the first artificially synthesized chemical element which does not occur in nature.
		While at Berkeley, he helped discover the element astatine and the isotope plutonium-239 (which was later used to make the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/segre.html (453 words)

	History - Main - Univ Partners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When the Uranium Committee was formed in October of 1939, several laboratories already had experience working on related research and several university laboratories were using a variety of accelerators in their research.
		Foremost among these were the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (commonly referred to as the "Rad Lab") at the University of California, the SAM Laboratory at Columbia University in New York City, and the Metallurgical Laboratory (commonly referred to as the "Met Lab") at the University of Chicago.
		To Robert Serber, Edwin McMillan and the other UC Berkeley theorists were added Emilio Segre and J.W. Kennedy and their experimental groups from the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory.
	www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /HICC/HICC_UP.htm (1070 words)

	Radiation symbol
		The symbol, in essentially its modern, form first appeared in late 1946 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley where it was used internally as a radiation warning symbol.
		In April 1948, at the instigation of J. Kuper of Brookhaven National Laboratory, an Atomic Energy Commission Information Meeting was held at which the now familiar trefoil was adopted along with the unique magenta and light blue color scheme; the light blue was later changed to yellow for better visible contrast.
		The original Berkeley design can be found on the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Web site along with earlier signs and later versions and some excellent commentary by Paul Frame of the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education.
	www.hps.org /publicinformation/ate/q1550.html (400 words)

	Big Thinkers - Michio Kaku
		His goal is to help complete Einstein's dream of a "theory of everything," a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, which will unify all the fundamental forces in the universe.
		He has lectured around the world and his Ph.D. level textbooks are required reading at many of the top physics laboratories.
		He received a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in 1972.
	www.kurzweilai.net /bios/bio0227.html (271 words)

	Berkeley Daily Planet
		The vigil is on the grounds of UC Berkeley, because the campus is part of the University of California system.
		In Berkeley, the Radiation Laboratory was set up by the university on the campus in 1929.
		The vigil is Sunday at the west entrance to the UC Berkeley Campus.
	www.berkeleydaily.org /article.cfm?archiveDate=08-04-01&storyID=6167 (762 words)

	Albert Ghiorso Summary
		The mechanics of the process were unusual: the bombardment was done at the Berkeley cyclotron, and the extraction from the foil was performed in Ghiorso's Volkswagen as he sped up the hill to the laboratory, where the final chemistry and pulse analysis were performed.
		Ghiorso was a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1946 until 1982, and he was named director of Berkeley's HILAC in 1969.
		He was introduced to Glenn T. Seaborg through a mutual friendship between their wives who also worked as secretaries at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory.
	www.bookrags.com /Albert_Ghiorso (1922 words)

	Historical Photographs: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Such counters were used in human radiation tracer studies and for measuring AEC worker radiation exposure.
		The camera was a diagnostic tool developed at Donner Laboratory, Berkeley, to photograph radioactive tracer concentrations.
		A kidney examination using a scintillation camera at Donner Laboratory, Berkeley.
	www.eh.doe.gov /ohre/multimedia/photos/lbl/index.html (150 words)

	C&EN: IT'S ELEMENTAL: THE PERIODIC TABLE - SEABORGIUM
		However, the Berkeley group's work was confirmed in 1993, and they were credited with the discovery.
		The correspondent, Albert Ghiorso, repaired the Geiger counters at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory.
		The post-World War II years were something of a golden age in nuclear science, and this group was preeminent in nuclear chemistry, stretching the periodic table out with six more elements, all the way to 102.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/80th/print/seaborgiumprint.html (746 words)

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		It is suggested that a hospital patient at either Rochester or Chicago be chosen for injection of from one to ten micrograms of material and that the excreta be sent to [Los Alamos] for analysis".
		Kenneth Scott, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.] Although even the word "plutonium" remained classified at the time of CAL-1's injection, and for the remainder of the war, its existence and its characteristics were no longer secret after mid-August 1945, and the publication of the so-called Smyth Report.
		Dr. Bertram Low-Beer was one of Hamilton's colleague's at UCSF, and likewise had a joint appointment at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory.] Exactly what the patient was told by the physicians, however, necessarily remains a matter of conjecture, as the AEC's 1974 investigation noted.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet7/brief7/tab_g/br7g2.txt (1485 words)

	CMS—Site 300 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Laboratory staff have outfitted power poles with antielectrocution sleeves to protect the birds.
		This information is used in a computer code to predict the maximum amount of high explosives that can be detonated without exceeding the Laboratory's noise limit of 126 decibels for populated areas.
		His contributions can still be seen, however, in the Laboratory's continuing technical successes and its commitment to the expression, encouragement, and development of new ideas in science and technology to serve the national interest.
	www-cms.llnl.gov /s-t/site_300.html (3869 words)

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