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Ernest Lawrence

1901 - 1958

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Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American accelerator 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. A graduate of the University of South Dakota and University of Minnesota, Lawrence obtained a PhD in physics at Yale in 1925. In 1928, he was hired as an associate professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming the youngest full professor there two years later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Lawrence is the 112th most popular physicist (down from 75th in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from United States (down from 259th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Physicist.

Ernest Lawrence is most famous for inventing the cyclotron, which is a device that accelerates particles to high speeds.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernest Lawrence ranks 112 out of 851. Before him are Georges Lemaître, Hannes Alfvén, Dennis Gabor, Clinton Davisson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Peter Higgs. After him are Jagadish Chandra Bose, Heinrich Rohrer, Walther Bothe, Peter Grünberg, Willis Lamb, and Ernst Ruska.

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Among people born in 1901, Ernest Lawrence ranks 20. Before him are Leopold III of Belgium, Ngo Dinh Diem, Gary Cooper, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Magda Goebbels, and Paul of Greece. After him are Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Giacometti, André Malraux, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Jean Dubuffet. Among people deceased in 1958, Ernest Lawrence ranks 11. Before him are Roger Martin du Gard, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Kurt Alder, Tyrone Power, Faisal II of Iraq, and Clinton Davisson. After him are John B. Watson, Abul Kalam Azad, Maurice de Vlaminck, Milutin Milanković, Rudolf von Laban, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernest Lawrence ranks 351 out of 20,380. Before him are John Howard Northrop (1891), Clinton Davisson (1881), Golden State Killer (1945), Jay Leno (1950), Allen Dulles (1893), and Buzz Aldrin (1930). After him are Maria Branyas (1907), Leonard Bernstein (1918), Quentin Tarantino (1963), John B. Watson (1878), James A. Garfield (1831), and Demi Moore (1962).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ernest Lawrence ranks 15. Before him are Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Donald A. Glaser (1926), and Clinton Davisson (1881). After him are Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Arthur Compton (1892), and James Rainwater (1917).

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