What is Ernest Lawrence?
{{Infobox person |name = Ernest Orlando Lawrence |image = Ernest Lawrence.jpg |image_size = 250px |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1901|8|8}} |birth_place = [[Canton, South Dakota|Canton]], [[South Dakota]] |death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1958|8|27|1901|8|8}} | death_place = [[Palo Alto, California]] |occupation = [[Physics|Physicist]] | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in [[1939]] }} {{nobelprize|Physics}} '''Ernest Orlando Lawrence''' (August 8, 1901&nbsp;– August 27, 1958) was an [[Americans|American]] [[physics|physicist]]. he was born in [[South Dakota]]. He helped invent the [[nuclear bomb]] during [[World War II]]. Lawrence won the [[Nobel prize]] for physics in [[1939]]. His work was important in the science of [[nuclear physics]]. He worked out a way of measuring the [[mass]] of an [[electron]], part of an [[atom]]. {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Ernest}} [[Category:1901 births]] [[Category:1958 deaths]] [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:American Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Scientists from South Dakota]]