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GK QUESTION#3496

Who worked with Ernest O. Lawrence on the invention and early development of the cyclotron?

  1. AJJ Thomson
  2. BErnest Rutherford
  3. CMS LivingstonCorrect answer
  4. DEnrico Fermi
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C. MS Livingston

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M. Stanley Livingston worked with Ernest O. Lawrence on the early cyclotron. The first successful machines date to the early 1930s, with the initial demonstration in 1931. A cyclotron accelerates suitable charged particles using electric fields together with a magnetic field.

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