Lawrence Receives Nobel Prize

Date: February 29, 1940 • Location: Berkeley, United States

In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.

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