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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft 1897-1967, English physicist, educated at the Univ. of Manchester and St. John's College, Cambridge. He was a fellow of St. John's College (1928-46) and professor of natural philosophy at Cambridge (1939-46). After serving (1941-44) as chief superintendent of the Air Defe... Read more
Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton
Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton 1903-95, Irish physicist, educated at Methodist College (Belfast), Trinity College (Dublin), and Cambridge. He became a fellow of Trinity College in 1934 and professor of natural and experimental philosophy there in 1946. The 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded joi... Read more
particle accelerator
particle accelerator apparatus used in nuclear physics to produce beams of energetic charged particles and to direct them against various targets. Such machines, popularly called atom smashers, are needed to observe objects as small as the atomic nucleus in studies of its structure and of the for... Read more
abstract art
abstract art. Art that does not depict recognizable scenes or objects, but instead is made up of forms and colours that exist for their own expressive sake. Much decorative art can thus be described as abstract, but in normal usage the term refers to 20th-century painting and sculpture that abandon ... Read more
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prizes Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E... Read more
physics
physics branch of science traditionally defined as the study of matter , energy , and the relation between them; it was called natural philosophy until the late 19th cent. and is still known by this name at a few universities. Physics is in some senses the oldest and most basic pure science; it... Read more

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John Douglas Cockcroft
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography John Douglas Cockcroft John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967) was an English physicist. His main contribution...particles as to produce the transmutation of atomic nuclei. John Cockcroft was born in Todmorden, Lancashire, on May 27, 1897. He...
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sir John Douglas Cockcroft 1897-1967, English physicist, educated at the Univ. of Manchester...Establishment. The 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Cockcroft and E. T. S. Walton for their pioneering work in transmuting atomic...
Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas (1897–1967) English physicist who, with Ernest Walton , first split the atom . He and Walton...
Ernest Walton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for achieving, with physicist John D. Cockcroft, the first artificial disintegration...energy producer, the work of Walton and Cockcroft stimulated many theoretical and practical...For their pioneering work, Walton and Cockcroft shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics...
Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...natural and experimental philosophy there in 1946. The 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Walton and Sir John Cockcroft for their pioneering work in transmuting atomic nuclei by bombarding elements with artificially accelerated atomic particles...
particle accelerator
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...field along the length of an evacuated tube, and the particles acquired energy as they moved through the electric field. The Cockcroft-Walton accelerator produced high voltage by charging a bank of capacitors in parallel and then connecting them in series...
Nobel Prizes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Tadeus Reichstein Bertrand Russel, Earl Russell 1951 Léon Jouhaux Edwin M. McMillan Glenn T. Seaborg Sir John D. Cockcroft Ernest T. S. Walton Max Theiler Pär F. Lagerkvist 1952 Albert Schweitzer A. J. P. Martin R. L. M. Synge...
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton (1903–95) Irish physicist. Walton shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in physics with John Cockcroft for their development (1929) of the first nuclear particle accelerator . In 1931, they produced the first artificial nuclear...

Dictionary entries related to "Cockcroft,"

Cockcroft, John Douglas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Cockcroft, John Douglas ( b . Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, 27...transferred to Birks Mill, situated a few miles away at Walsden. Cockcroft ’ s father, J. A. Cockcroft devoted himself to rebuilding the prosperity of the firm...
Gamow, George
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...energy required to split the nucleus by means of artificially accelerated protons and, encouraged by the result, set J. D. Cockcroft and Ernest Walton to work on the construction of the accelerator, with well-known results. In 1930 – 1931 Gamow...
Cyclotron
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...tried a number of different approaches to the acceleration problem, including a voltage multiplier circuit (Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton) and an electrostatic generator (Robert J. Van de Graaff), both linear accelerators. In 1930, University...

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Interview: Mark Cockcroft discusses a new type of container that is made from corn [DP]
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 6/29/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Sunday 06-29-2003 Interview: Mark Cockcroft discusses a new type of container that...in what's called a corntainer. Mark Cockcroft is the regional marketing manager for...right now. Mark, welcome. Mr. MARK COCKCROFT (Regional Marketing Manager, Whole...
Reliability Of Cockcroft Formula Decreases With Increasing Obesity.(assessment of glomerular filtration rate of kidneys)
Newspaper article from: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week; 6/30/2001; 700+ words ; ...Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The ability of the Cockcroft formula to assess glomerular filtration rate...The Netherlands evaluated the reliability of the Cockcroft formula (GFR(Cockcroft)) and endogenous creatinine clearance (GFR...
Obituary: Dr Janet Cockcroft
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; JANET COCKCROFT was a campaigner for women's health...she met Captain (later Major) Peter Cockcroft in 1940 - they married before his embarkation leave. During his absence, Janet Cockcroft worked as a GP in the Derbyshire mining...
COCKCROFT 243 TODAY
Magazine article from: Mathematics Teaching; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Introduction Soon after the Cockcroft report was published in 1982 ATM...publication Teaching styles: a response to Cockcroft 243 [1]. We wrote it as an activity...its press statement following the Cockcroft report - we believed there was a...
A bipolar Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier for gas lasers.
Magazine article from: American Journal of Applied Sciences; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; INTRODUCTION Although Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier (CWVM...diagram of proposed n-stage bipolar Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier. It consists...stage positive and q-stage negative Cockcroft- Walton voltage multipliers, liers...
HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY COCKCROFT
Magazine article from: Mathematics Teaching; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Kath Cross' research day forced me to get out my Cockcroft report. Cockcroft is remembered for paragraph 243. 243 = 3(5...will be remembered with the same affection as Cockcroft's 243 twenty-one years from now? If paragraph...
A Contribution from the 2003-2004 Amy V. Cockcroft Nursing Leadership Fellow Lydia R. Zager Something to Think About...
Magazine article from: The South Carolina Nurse; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Nursing Fellows, who completed the Amy V. Cockcroft Nursing Leadership Development Program. The current Cockcroft Fellows represent nurses from across...backgrounds. The amazing part is this group of Cockcroft Nursing Leadership Fellows, not only...
Health matters: Are we looking NHS gift horse in mouth? A shake-up of NHS dental services starts on April 1. The Government's chief dental officer, Dr Barry Cockcroft, told Health Reporter Emma Brady about the new system.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 3/9/2006; 700+ words ; Byline: Emma Brady Dr Barry Cockcroft was a practising dentist in Warwickshire...come into affect next month. Dr Cockcroft, who ran a practice in Rugby for...including Birmingham. But Dr Cockcroft said the new system would be based...
Diagnostic Accuracies of Plasma Creatinine, Cystatin C, and Glomerular Filtration Rate Calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault and Levey (MDRD) Formulas
Magazine article from: Clinical Chemistry; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...cystatin C with GFRs calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault (4) and the MDRD (5) formulas...GFR^sub CG^ (calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula), and GFR^sub MDRD...other. GFR values calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula were ~10% higher...
Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Black South Africans by Use of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease and Cockcroft-Gault Equations
Magazine article from: Clinical Chemistry; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Diet in Renal Disease (4-v MDRD) and Cockcroft-Gault (CG) equations are commonly...Renal Disease (4-v MDRD) (14) and Cockcroft-Gault (CG) (15) equations. The...creatinine measurements (18). The Cockcroft-Gault equation was derived from 236...