Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) wis a pioneerin American nuclear scientist an winner o the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention o the cyclotron.
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| Born | Ernest Orlando Lawrence 8 August 1901(1901-08-08) Canton, Sooth Dakota, Unitit States |
| Dee'd | 27 August 1958(1958-08-27) (aged 57) Palo Alto, Californie, Unitit States |
| Residence | Berkeley, Californie |
| Naitionality | American |
| Alma mater | Varsity o Sooth Dakota, B.A. Varsity o Minnesota, M.A. Yale Varsity, Ph.D. |
| Kent for | Invention o the cyclotron Manhattan Project |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Mary K. "Molly" (Blumer) Lawrence (1910–2003) (m. 1932–1958, his daith) |
| Bairns | 2 sons, 4 dauchters |
| Awairds | Hughes Medal (1937) Elliott Cresson Medal (1937) Comstock Prize in Physics (1938) Nobel Prize in Physics (1939) Duddell Medal an Prize (1940) Holley Medal (1942) Medal for Merit (1946) Officer de la Legion d'Honneur (1948) William Procter Prize (1951) Faraday Medal (1952) Enrico Fermi Awaird (1957) Sylvanus Thayer Awaird (1958) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Varsity o Californie Yale Varsity |
| Thesis | The Photoelectric Effect in Potassium Vapor as a Function o the Frequency o the Licht (1924) |
| Doctoral advisor | William F.G. Swann |
| Doctoral students | Edwin McMillan Chien-Shiung Wu Milton S. Livingston Kenneth Ross MacKenzie John Reginald Richardson |
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