Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist. he was born in South Dakota. He helped invent the nuclear bomb during World War II. Lawrence won the Nobel prize for physics in 1939. His work was important in the science of nuclear physics. He worked out a way of measuring the mass of an electron, part of an atom.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence | |
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| Born | August 8, 1901 |
| Died | August 27, 1958 (aged 57) |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Known for | Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 |
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Diagram of cyclotron operation from Lawrence's 1934 patent
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff framed by the magnet for the 60-inch cyclotron, 1938; Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Alvarez are shown, in addition to J. Robert Oppenheimer and Robert R. Wilson.
Schematic diagram of uranium isotope separation in a calutron
Giant electromagnet Alpha I racetrack for uranium enrichment at Y-12 plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, circa 1944–45. The calutrons Lawrence developed are located around the ring.
Lawrence (right) with Robert Oppenheimer at the 184-inch cyclotron, circa 1946
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