Ernest Lawrence Quotes


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.


Citations

Lawrence, Ernest O. "Ernest Lawrence - Banquet Speech." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1939/lawrence/speech/.

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Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Lawrence
  • Born: August 8, 1901
  • Died: August 27, 1958
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was a pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of 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.