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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 Livermore National Laboratory .
Biographical. Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born on 8th August, 1901, at Canton, South Dakota (United States). His parents, Carl Gustavus and Gunda (née Jacobson) Lawrence, were the children of Norwegian immigrants, his father being a Superintendant of Schools. His early education was at Canton High School, then St. Olaf College.
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. Lawrence earned a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1925.
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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. Yes, he was the "father of big science," the first to ...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is the namesake and legacy of its founder, Ernest Orlando Lawrence (E.O. Lawrence), winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron.
Small enough to hold in his hands, the original cyclotron ushered in the era of giant “atom smashers” housed under domes at Berkeley Lab and at particle physics laboratories around the world, furthering the fields of experimentation and discovery at the sub-atomic level. Filming of Ernest Orlando Lawrence giving Nobel Prize talk.
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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. Prize motivation: “for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with ...
