What actually inspired Lawrence to come up with a cyclotron?
A diagram of an accelerator
A book on nuclear physics
A science-fiction movie
His dreams
Answer
The cyclotron was actually inspired by a diagram of an accelerator that Ernest Lawrence saw. The diagram was in a physics textbook and showed a circular accelerator with a particle traveling around the inside of the circle. Lawrence thought that this would be a great way to accelerate particles and he set out to build his own cyclotron.
Ernest Lawrence: Unleashing the Atom
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