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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. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project , as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence ...
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (born August 8, 1901, Canton, South Dakota, U.S.—died August 27, 1958, Palo Alto, California) 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.
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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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Physicist, Engineer, Statesman of Science. Ernest Orlando Lawrence's scientific accomplishments and influence on science are almost unique in his generation and rank among the most outstanding in history. His cyclotron was to nuclear science what Galileo's telescope was to astronomy.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1939. 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.
