M. Stanley Livingston

Milton Stanley Livingston
Born	(1905-05-25)May 25, 1905 Brodhead, Wisconsin
Died	August 25, 1986(1986-08-25) (aged 81) Santa Fe, New Mexico
Alma mater	Pomona College Dartmouth College University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Development of the cyclotron and strong focusing
Spouse(s)	Lois Robinson, Margaret Hughes
Awards	Enrico Fermi Award (1986)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics (accelerator physics)
Institutions	UC Berkeley, Cornell University, MIT, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thesis	The Production of High Velocity Hydrogen Ions without the Use of High Voltages (1931)
Doctoral advisor	Ernest Lawrence
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Milton Stanley Livingston (May 25, 1905 – August 25, 1986) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators. He built cyclotrons at the University of California, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During World War II, he served in the operations research group at the Office of Naval Research.

Livingston was the chairman of the Accelerator Project at Brookhaven National Laboratory, director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor of physics at MIT, and a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award from the United States Department of Energy. He was associate director of the National Accelerator Laboratory from 1967 to 1970.