Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American 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.
- Occupation
- physicist, nuclear physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 8, 1901
- Died
- August 27, 1958