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  2. Ernest Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. [1] 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 ...

  3. File:Atomic physicists Ernest O. Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and ...

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    Scope and content: * Ernest Orlando Lawrence (* 8. August 1901 in Canton, South Dakota; † 27. August 1958 in Palo Alto, Kalifornien) Enrico Fermi (* 29. September 1901 in Rom, Italien; † 28.

  4. File:60-inch cyclotron, c 1930s. This shows the (9660569583 ...

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    Description: 60-inch cyclotron, 1939. This shows the cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, soon after completion in 1939. The key figures in its development and use are shown, standing, left to right: Dr D Cooksey, Dr D Corson, Dr Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-58), the inventor of the cyclotron; Dr R Thornton, Dr J Backus, WS Sainsbury [W. W. Salisbury], Dr LW Alvarez (1911 ...

  5. Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years - Wikipedia

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    Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years is a book by Ernest Lawrence Abel about the history of cannabis, first published in 1980. [1] Table of contents

  6. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award - Wikipedia

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    The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award was established in 1959 in honor of a scientist who helped elevate American physics to the status of world leader in the field.. E. O. Lawrence was the inventor of the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles, and a 1939 Nobel Laureate in physics for that achievement.

  7. Oppenheimer security clearance hearing - Wikipedia

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    In his book Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (2002), Gregg Herken, a senior historian at the Smithsonian Institution, contended, based on newly discovered documentation, that Oppenheimer was a member of the Communist Party. [116]

  8. John Cockcroft - Wikipedia

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    Cockcroft and Walton were well aware of the limits of their accelerator. A much better design had been developed in the United States by Ernest Lawrence, which he called the cyclotron. The Cavendish Laboratory was able to keep ahead of the Americans despite having an inferior accelerator with clever physics, but Cockcroft pressed Rutherford to ...

  9. D. H. Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter.