John Cockcroft
Physicist, Academic
1897 – 1967
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Who was John Cockcroft?
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. He was the first Master of Churchill College and is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, together with his wife Elizabeth and son John, known as Timothy, who had died at the age of two in 1929.
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- Born
- May 27, 1897
Todmorden - Also known as
- Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
- Religion
- Christianity
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- St John's College, Cambridge
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- Victoria University of Manchester
- University of Cambridge
- University of Manchester
- Lived in
- United Kingdom
- Todmorden
- Died
- Sep 18, 1967
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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