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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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