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Ernest Lawrence

Physics

Ernest Lawrence was an American physicist who invented the cyclotron, the first circular particle accelerator, developing it at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in 1930. The cyclotron accelerates charged particles along an outward spiral path using a fixed magnetic field and an alternating electric field, and Lawrence's design became the model for later generations of particle accelerators. He was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it.

Facts
Birth Year
1901 1
Field
Physics, particle acceleration 1
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Invented

Cyclotron, Instruments

Conceived the cyclotron in the spring of 1929 and built the first operating device in 1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, with student M. Stanley Livingston; awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.

Source Ernest Lawrence, Facts (Nobel Prize)

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Physics, Disciplines
Source Ernest Lawrence, Facts (Nobel Prize)
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