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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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Niels Bohr's cyclotron
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
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Walther Bothe
German physicist