What year did Ernest Lawrence die?
1952
1958
1963
1960
Answer
Ernest Orlando Lawrence died in 1958 at the age of 66. He was an American physicist and inventor who is credited with inventing the cyclotron, a particle accelerator that can accelerate charged particles to high energies. Lawrence was also a pioneer in the field of nuclear physics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his work on the cyclotron.
Ernest Lawrence: Unleashing the Atom
More Questions
Related Quizzes
Subscribe Now!
Learn something
new everyday
Playing quizzes is free! We send 1 quiz every week to your inbox