# Ernest Lawrence (@ernest-lawrence)

Ernest Lawrence was an American physicist who invented the cyclotron and built a model of large-team laboratory science.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Ernest Lawrence's public record._

## Topics

- [Historical context](/@ernest-lawrence/historical-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Influence](/@ernest-lawrence/influence.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Major work](/@ernest-lawrence/major-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1939/lawrence/biographical/
- blog: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Orlando-Lawrence
- blog: https://www.lbl.gov/about/history/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "ernest-lawrence", "question": "…"}`.