Ernest Orlando Lawrence By: Jordan Lembke ♥

InFo Born August 8 th, 1901 in Canton, South Dakota Parents: Carl and Gunda Lawrence Went to USD in 1919, got his B.A. in chemistry Received his M.A. at the University of Minnesota the following year.

InFo (continued) Spent a year at the University of Chicago and received his PhD from Yale in Continued at Yale for 3 years. Was appointed Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California in Married Mary Kimberly Blumer in Had 6 kids.

Made vital contributions to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. After the war he played a part in the attempt to obtain international agreement on the suspension of atomic-bomb testing. Was a member of the U.S. delegation at the 1958 Geneva Conference on this subject.

Research centered on nuclear physics. Early work was on ionization phenomena and the measurement of ionization potentials of metal vapors.

Invented the cyclotron in Cyclotron: device for accelerating nuclear particles to very high velocities without use of high voltages. Used to bombard atoms of various elements, disintegrating the atoms to form, in some cases, completely new elements.

Hundreds of radioactive isotopes of the known elements were also discovered. His brother collaborated with him in studying medical and biological applications of the cyclotron

His brother, Dr. John Lawrence, collaborated with him in studying medical and biological applications of the cyclotron became a consultant to the Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia.

Larger and more powerful versions of the cyclotron were built by Lawrence. In 1941 instrument was used to generate artificially cosmic particles called mesons later the studies were extended to antiparticles.

inventor of method for obtaining time intervals as small as three billionths of a second Used to study the discharge phenomena of an electric spark.

Devised a very precise method for measuring the e/m ratio of the electron Most of his work was published in The Physical Review and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

MEDALS Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Comstock Prize of the National Academy of Sciences, the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, the Duddell Medal of the Royal Physical Society, the Faraday Medal, and the Enrico Fermi Award

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