Ernest O. Lawrence Biography

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NAME: Ernest O. Lawrence
OCCUPATION: Educator, Inventor, Physicist
BIRTH DATE: August 08, 1901
DEATH DATE: August 27, 1958
EDUCATION: Yale University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Canton, Ohio
PLACE OF DEATH: Palo Alto, California
Full Name: Ernest Orlando Lawrence

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American physicist Ernest O. Lawrence won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron particle accelerator.

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Ernest O. Lawrence first conceived the idea for the cyclotron in 1929. One of his students, M. Stanley Livingston, undertook the project and succeeded in building a device that accelerated hydrogen ions (protons) to an energy of 13,000 electron volts (eV). Lawrence then set out to build a second cyclotron; when completed, it accelerated protons fast enough energy to cause nuclear disintegration.