Ernest Lawrence

American physicist (1901–1958)

Born: 1901

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist who received 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.

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1958

Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)

1901

Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)