The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Born: 8
August 1901, Canton, SD, USA Died: 27 August 1958, Palo Alto,
CF, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: University of
California, Berkeley, CA, USA Prize motivation: "for the
invention and development of the cyclotron and for results
obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial
radioactive elements" Field: Accelerator physics,
instrumentation Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born on 8th August,
1901, at Canton, South Dakota (United States). His parents, Carl
Gustavus and Gunda (née Jacobson) Lawrence, were the children of
Norwegian immigrants, his father being a Superintendant of
Schools. His early education was at Canton High School, then St.
Olaf College. In 1919 he went to the University of South Dakota,
receiving his B.A. in Chemistry in 1922. The following year he
received his M.A. from the University of Minnesota. He spent a
year at University of Chicago doing physics and was awarded his
Ph.D. from Yale University in 1925. He conti