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McMillan co-invented the synchrotron with Vladimir Veksler. He returned to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory after the war, and built them. In 1954 he was appointed associate director of the Radiation Laboratory, being promoted to deputy director in 1958. On the death of lab founder Ernest Lawrence that year, he became director, and he stayed in that position until his retirement in 1973.