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Ernest Orlando Lawrence
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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 192
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Two LLNL scientists earn E.O. Lawrence Award - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (.gov)
Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron: Invention for the ages - University of California, Berkeley
Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Honored with the Lawrence Award - Berkeley Lab News Center (.gov)
About the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (.gov)
Lawrence -- The Man, His Lab, His Legacy - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (.gov)
Carolyn Bertozzi, Peidong Yang receive Lawrence Award from DOE - University of California, Berkeley
Computational mathematician at Sandia receives DOE’s Lawrence Award - Sandia National Laboratories (.gov)
Berkeley Lab Science Well-Represented in 2014 Lawrence Award Announcements - Berkeley Lab News Center (.gov)
Berkeley Lab’s Adam Arkin Wins 2013 Lawrence Award - Berkeley Lab News Center (.gov)
Berkeley Lab researcher honored with E.O. Lawrence Fellowship - Berkeley Lab News Center (.gov)