Where was the first cyclotron built?
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The first cyclotron was built at the University of California, Berkeley, by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1932. The cyclotron is a particle accelerator that uses a magnetic field to bend charged particles into a circular path. The particles gain energy as they travel around the circle, and they are eventually ejected from the cyclotron at high speed.
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