Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born on August 8, 1901, in Canton, South Dakota. He accepted a certificate of membership in the USSR Academy of Scientists on August 12, 1943, with the permission of General Leslie Groves, Manhattan Engineering District. In 1936, he was employed as the Director of the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939. Dr. Lawrence was the inventor of the cyclotron and was considered as a noted authority on nuclear energy. Lawrence attended the Geneva conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy where he gave a talk.
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