Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton (
1903–
1995) was an
Irish physicist. He became a fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge in
1934 and professor of natural and experimental philosophy there in
1946. The
1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Walton and Sir
John Douglas Cockcroft for their pioneer work in transmuting atomic
nuclei by bombarding
elements with artificially accelerated atomic particles.
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