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1930	Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron at Berkeley.
1936	Schools of Business Administration established at Los Angeles.
1939	School of Nursing established at San Francisco.
	School of Education organized out of old Teachers College; College of Agriculture established at Los Angeles.
	UC Berkeley professor Ernest O. Lawrence receives the Nobel Prize in Physics.