Cockcroft, John Douglas (1897-1967) British physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951 for his work in 1932 when, working with the Irish physicist Ernest Walton ...
British physicist who, with Ernest Walton, was the first to successfully split an atom using a particle accelerator in 1932. For this work they shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for ...
British physicist who with Ernest Walton succeeded in splitting the atom (1931). They shared a 1951 Nobel Prize for their contributions to nuclear physics.