Photo: Four-inch copper-encased cyclotron, one of Ernest ... Lawrence knew that a magnetic field would deflect the charged particles into a curved path. By making the particles go in a spiral ...

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A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator that moves protons, one kind of charged particle comprising atoms, along a spiral path to strike a target. What does it do? Particle/proton accelerators ...

In 1929 Ernest Lawrence came up with the much more compact cyclotron, which accelerates particles along a spiral path guided by a magnetic field. Together with his student M. Stanley Livingston ...