Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens, K.C. Cole’s newly published biography of the “uncle of the atom bomb,” as Frank Oppenheimer called himself, recounts the touching and sometimes tortuous relationship between Frank, Ernest Lawrence, and other physicists as they struggled to find a way to survive a nuclear age. Oppenheimer’s solution was to found an extraordinary science museum, the Exploratorium.

Berkeley Lab is partnering with Oakland Technical High School and El Cerrito High School in their Green Academies. Beginning this fall, students and their teachers will be able to take lab tours, hear talks by Berkeley Lab scientists and eventually, some will have eight-week summer internships.

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BERKELEY, CA –The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will be enhancing its science education outreach in the Bay Area, thanks to a $100,000 gift from Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr, former chairman of the Board of Directors of The Bechtel Group engineering and project management [...]

Contact: Rollie Otto, (510) 486-5325

BERKELEY, CA – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with its wide range of educational programs designed to reach students of all ages, welcomed U.S. Secretary of Energy [...]