Ernest Walton
Physicist, Academic
1903 – 1995
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Who was Ernest Walton?
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to artificially split the atom, thus ushering the nuclear age.
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- Born
- Oct 6, 1903
Dungarvan - Also known as
- Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
- Religion
- Methodism
- Nationality
- Republic of Ireland
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Methodist College Belfast
- Trinity College, Dublin
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- County Waterford
- Died
- Jun 25, 1995
Belfast
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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