Near Grizzly Peak Blvd, the science hall is named after Ernest Lawrence, who won the Nobel Prize for his invention of the cyclotron particle accelerator. He was a key member of the WWII Manhattan Project, and he’s also the name behind the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore laboratories. The Hall of Science has interactive exhibits for kids and adults (many closed on weekdays) on subjects ranging from earthquakes to nanotechnology, and outside there’s a 60ft model of a DNA molecule.
AC Transit bus 65 runs to the hall from the downtown BART station. You can also catch the university’s Bear Transit shuttle (H line) from the Hearst Mining Circle.
