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1. cockcroft, sir john cockcroft, sir john douglas cockcroft

British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)

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Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951

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Sir John Douglas1897-1967; Eng. nuclear physicist

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British physicist who with Ernest Walton succeeded in splitting atomic nuclei by bombarding them with protons. The two men shared a 1951 Nobel Prize for this work.

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