Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

C. He was also the first recipient of the Sylvanus Thayer Award. The award ceremony was held on February 29 1940 in Berkeley California due to World War II in the auditorium of Wheeler Hall on the campus of the university with Lawrence receiving his medal from Carl E.

Chemical element number 103 is named "lawrencium" in Lawrence's honor. Lawrence had a long career at the University of California Berkeley where he was a Professor of Physics.