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Plan view of the classical cyclotronAn ion source is located at the centre of an evacuated cylindrical chamber, between the poles of an electromagnet that creates a uniform field perpendicular to the flat faces. The source of the voltage is an oscillator that operates at a frequency equal to the frequency of revolution of the particles in the magnetic field. The accelerated particles follow semicircular paths of continually increasing radius. cyclotron Niels Bohr's cyclotron Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
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Also Known As magnetic resonance accelerator

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Plan view of the classical cyclotronAn ion source is located at the centre of an evacuated cylindrical chamber, between the poles of an electromagnet that creates a uniform field perpendicular to the flat faces. The source of the voltage is an oscillator that operates at a frequency equal to the frequency of revolution of the particles in the magnetic field. The accelerated particles follow semicircular paths of continually increasing radius.
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
Walther Bothe
German physicist