5 Quotes & Sayings By Ernest Lawrence

Ernest Lawrence was born in New York City in 1908. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 and won it in 1945. He was the first to use the cyclotron to make radioactive isotopes, and he developed the cyclotron into a particle accelerator that revolutionized medicine and chemistry, and led to the splitting of the atom.

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Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure. Ernest Lawrence
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Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science. Ernest Lawrence
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In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. Ernest Lawrence
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No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. Ernest Lawrence