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For what did Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939?

  • For discovering the neutron

  • Inventing the cyclotron

  • Developing the nuclear bomb

  • Inventing X-Ray machines

Answer

Ernest Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron, a particle accelerator that uses electric and magnetic fields to accelerate charged particles to high energies. The cyclotron was a major advance in particle physics, and it made possible the discovery of many new subatomic particles.
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