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Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 was awarded to Ernest Orlando Lawrence "for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements"
Ernest Orlando Lawrence. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939. Born: 8 August 1901, Canton, SD, USA. Died: 27 August 1958, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron, the first particle accelerator to achieve high energies. Lawrence earned a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1925. An assistant professor of physics at Yale (1927–28), he went.
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Berkeley Lab’s Nobel tradition began when Lab founder Ernest Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular device capable of accelerating nuclear particles to extremely high speeds without the use of high voltage.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is the namesake and legacy of its founder, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron. Yes, Lawrence was the inventor of the cyclotron, the granddaddy of today's most powerful accelerators.
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Ernest Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron and the discoveries made with it. He and his team conquered a huge number of colossal engineering problems to achieve their results.
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