Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, [1] [2] and patented in 1932. [3] [4] A cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center of a flat cylindrical vacuum chamber along a spiral path.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (born August 8, 1901, Canton, South Dakota, U.S.—died August 27, 1958, Palo Alto, California) was an American physicist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron, the first particle accelerator to achieve high energies.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This web exhibit from the American Institute of Physics details the career of Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the Cyclotron, Ernest O. Lawrence.
In 1929 he invented the cyclotron, a device for accelerating nuclear particles to very high velocities without the use of high voltages. The swiftly moving particles were used to bombard atoms of various elements, disintegrating the atoms to form, in some cases, completely new elements.
Lawrence invented the cyclotron, a particle accelerator that ushered in a new era of physics. By whirling particles around to boost their energies and smashing them into a target, researchers could study atomic nuclei. See how a cyclotron works.
26. Mai 2021 · Despite its Rube Goldberg appearance, the cyclotron proved Lawrence's point: whirling particles around to boost their energies, then casting them toward a target like stones from a slingshot is the most efficient and effective way to smash open atomic nuclei.
