Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

Born: 1897-05-27 in Todmorden, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: British physicist (1897–1967)

Biography

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951

Awarded on: 1951-11-15

"for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"

Affiliations:

Atomic Energy Research Establishment – Harwell, Berkshire, United Kingdom

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