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Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist
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dead
- born
- 1901
- died
- 1958
- age at death
- 57
- known for
- physicist, nuclear physicist, university teacher
1901 – 1958

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who ernest lawrence is
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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