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Lawrencium -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
 | | First produced in 1961 by Albert Ghiorso, T. Sikkeland, A.E. Larsh, and R.M. Latimer, it was named for Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron. |
| | Not occurring in nature, lawrencium (as the isotopes lawrencium-257, lawrencium-258, and lawrencium-259) was produced (1961) by Albert Ghiorso, T. Sikkeland, A.E. Larsh, and R.M. Latimer at the University of California, Berkeley, by bombarding... |
| | Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born on Aug. 8, 1901, in Canton, S.D. He received a Ph.D. in 1925 from Yale University, where he taught for a year before moving to the University of California at Berkeley. |
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