The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 was awarded to Ernest Orlando Lawrence "for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements."
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