Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
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Physicist who invented the cyclotron and snagged the 1939 Nobel Prize for it. Lawrence then pivoted to uranium separation for the Manhattan Project and left his name on two major national labs—Berkeley and Livermore.
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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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