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Nov 29, 1908 Wootton, England, United Kingdom Died on 28 Sep 1985 (aged 76)
American physicist
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About Robert Lyster Thornton
- Robert Lyster Thornton (29 November 1908 – 28 September 1985) was a British-Canadian-American physicist who worked on the cyclotrons at Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the 1930s.
- During World War II he assisted with the development of the calutron as part of the Manhattan Project.
- He returned to Berkeley in 1945 to lead the construction of the 184-inch (470 cm) cyclotron, and spent the rest of his career there.
