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Ernest Lawrence

American nuclear physicist

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born
1901
died
1958
age at death
57
known for
physicist, nuclear physicist, university teacher

1901 – 1958

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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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