
John Cockcroft
✶May 27, 1897
†September 18, 1967
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✶May 27, 1897
†September 18, 1967
11 candles from 2 countries
Would you like to keep memories of someone else?
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of nuclear power and weapons.
British physicist (1897–1967)
Biography from the article John Cockcroft on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.