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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939

"for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements"
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
USA
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
b. 1901
d. 1958
 
 
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