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1901–1958
Ernest Lawrence
Invented the cyclotron, the particle accelerator behind many of the first artificial elements, and won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Element
103LrLawrencium
1965
Berkeley and Dubna both made element 103 in the 1960s and disputed each other's results. The name lawrencium, after Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, was confirmed in 1997.
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