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Ernest Lawrence

(1901–1958) Physicist

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Ernest Lawrence was a physicist, best known for February Man.

Quick Facts About Ernest Lawrence

Born: August 8, 1901
Died: August 27, 1958
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: February Man

About Ernest Lawrence

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Ernest Lawrence

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in…

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Affair

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I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

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Environment

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It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

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Can do

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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…

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Bring

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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…

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Adventure

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For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large…

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Aids

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I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push…

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Errors

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Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus…

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Atomic

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Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And…

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Band

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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group…

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Ability

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But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out.

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Baseball

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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact…

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Devoted

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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…

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Application

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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…

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Individual

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We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed…

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Age

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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact…

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Attics

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