1901 - 1958
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist 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. A graduate of the University of South Dakota and University of Minnesota, Lawrence obtained a PhD in physics at Yale in 1925. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Lawrence has received more than 1,675,149 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Ernest Lawrence is the 132nd most popular physicist (down from 108th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from United States (down from 469th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Physicist.
Ernest Lawrence is most famous for inventing the cyclotron, which is a device that accelerates particles to high speeds.
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Among physicists, Ernest Lawrence ranks 132 out of 717. Before him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Arno Allan Penzias, Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Glover Barkla, Hans Georg Dehmelt, and Maurice Wilkins. After him are Igor Tamm, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Albert Fert, François Englert, and Jean-Baptiste Biot.
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 126
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 127
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 128
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 129
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 130
1916 - 2004
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 131
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 132
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 133
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 134
1799 - 1864
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 135
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 136
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 137
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 138
Among people born in 1901, Ernest Lawrence ranks 36. Before him are Milton H. Erickson, Witold Pilecki, Mohamed Naguib, Robert Bresson, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. After him are Ricardo Zamora, Nikolai Vatutin, Henning von Tresckow, Salvatore Quasimodo, Carl Barks, and Jascha Heifetz. Among people deceased in 1958, Ernest Lawrence ranks 12. Before him are Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Roger Martin du Gard, Clinton Davisson, Maurice de Vlaminck, Faisal II of Iraq, and Kurt Alder. After him are Lion Feuchtwanger, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Maurice Gamelin, Milutin Milanković, G. E. Moore, and Giacomo Balla.
1901 - 1980
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 30
1901 - 1948
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 31
1901 - 1984
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 32
1901 - 1999
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 33
1901 - 1932
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 34
1901 - 1965
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 35
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 36
1901 - 1978
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 37
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 38
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 39
1901 - 1968
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 40
1901 - 2000
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 41
1901 - 1987
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 42
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 6
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 7
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 8
1876 - 1958
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 9
1935 - 1958
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 10
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 11
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 12
1884 - 1958
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 13
1881 - 1958
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 14
1872 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 15
1879 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 16
1873 - 1958
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 17
1871 - 1958
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 18
Among people born in United States, Ernest Lawrence ranks 551 out of 18,182. Before him are Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Jerry Lewis (1926), Anthony Perkins (1932), Francis Fukuyama (1952), James Caan (1940), and Margaret Keane (1927). After him are Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Joseph Barbera (1911), Washington Irving (1783), Eugene O'Neill (1888), and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839).
1908 - 1979
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 545
1926 - 2017
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 546
1932 - 1992
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 547
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 548
1940 - 2022
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 549
1927 - 2022
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 550
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 551
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 552
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 553
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 554
1783 - 1859
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 555
1888 - 1953
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 556
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 557
Among physicists born in United States, Ernest Lawrence ranks 14. Before him are Arthur Compton (1892), Joseph Henry (1797), Kip Thorne (1940), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882). After him are Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), and Hugh Everett III (1930).
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 13
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 14
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 15
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 16
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 18
1923 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 19
1930 - 1982
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 20