What nationality was Ernest Lawrence?
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Ernest Lawrence was an American physicist. He was born in Canton, South Dakota, in 1901. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his Ph.D. in physics in 1925. Lawrence is best known for his invention of the cyclotron, a particle accelerator that he developed in the 1930s.
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