Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton

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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 reaction without radioactive isotopes, using high-energy protons to bombard lithium nuclei.

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