One Hell of Energy. Ernest O. Lawrence and the Cyclotron.Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958) helped elevate American physics to world leadership. His invention of the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles, won him the Nobel Prize in 1939. His entrepreneurial development of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley ushered in the era of [base "]Big Science.[per thou]
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