John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist. Working with Ernest Walton at Cambridge, he built an apparatus, later known as the Cockcroft-Walton generator, that used artificially accelerated protons to split lithium nuclei, achieving the transmutation of atomic nuclei by means entirely under human control. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walton for this pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897-18 September 1967) 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.
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936, and in 1939 was appointed Jack
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