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Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Full Name of the recipient | Ernest Orlando Lawrence |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1939 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
Place of Birth | Canton, SD, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 8 August 1901 |
Age at the time of Award | 37 years |
Place of Death | Palo Alto, CA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 27 August 1958 |