print email comment close Breaking Through: A Century of Physics at Berkeley URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/ Description: This exhibit "tells the story of physics at [the University of California] Berkeley, 1868-1968. ... [C]onsider the results — scientists who made a machine to smash the atom, built a bomb that ended World War II, fought to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and won 7 Nobel Prizes in 19 years." Features annotated photographs, lecture notes, letters, video clips, and more. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Author: Farrell, David Publisher: University of California, Berkeley Extra Keywords Ernest O. Lawrence Los Alamos Trinity John LeConte J. Robert Oppenheimer Dublin Core Material Type: Text, Image Library of Congress Subject Headings: Physicists Physics Physics -- Research University of California, Berkeley -- History LII Database Information: Record 6101 created by Maria Brandt on 05/11/2005 Last modification on 07/06/2006 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 03/07/2006 Published: 05/11/2005   California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6101