BERKELEY, CA — Saul Perlmutter, a member of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Physics Division and leader of the international Supernova Cosmology Project based here, has won the Department of Energy's 2002 E. O. Lawrence Award in the physics category. Perlmutter is Berkeley Lab's 25th recipient of the prestigious award, which includes a gold medal and $25,000.

13/01/2021 · The Lawrence Award was established to honor the memory of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who invented the cyclotron – an accelerator of subatomic particles – and was named the 1939 Nobel Laureate in Physics for that achievement. Lawrence later played a leading role in establishing the U.S. system of national laboratories, and today, the Energy Department’s …

THE Atomic Energy Commission's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for 1961, conferred by the Commission on scientists less than 45 years old who have made “recent, especially meritorious contributions to the development, use or control of atomic energy,” was presented on April 28 to five scientists.