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:
- Trinity College – Dublin, Ireland
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Born: 1903-10-06 in Dungarvan, Ireland
Gender: male
Field: Irish nuclear physicist (1903–1995)
Biography
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish nuclear physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles". According to their Nobel Prize citation: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control".