Ernest Walton

✶October 6, 1903

†June 25, 1995

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About their life

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. He 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 speech: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control."

Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)

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Biography from the article Ernest Walton on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.