Ernest O. Lawrence - American Physicist
(1901-1958)
Early 1941
Lawrence begins contemplating the electromagnetic separation of uranium isotopes.
Lawrence realized that by modifying his cyclotron, he could achieve isotope separation just as in a mass spectrometer. However this was a slow, inefficient means of separation which would require many individual units to provide a decent yield.
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