August 3

This week’s clue was a little challenging – only six people got it right!

The winner of 499 Bucketlist points is:

John Parr, a senior conference planner for Berkeley Lab’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer, who correctly guessed the current location of the plaque.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence oversaw the development of the Bevatron, an accelerator designed to accelerate protons up to a peak of 6.5 billion electron volts (BeV) of energy. The commemorative plaque for the Bevatron is located at the ground floor entrance of the Integrative Genomics Building. Commissioned in 1954, this synchrotron played an important role in research that led to the discovery of antimatter (the antiproton and antineutron); subatomic resonance states, which led to the quark model; and “strange” particles, the first known example of a lack of symmetry in nature.