Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. With John Cockcroft at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, he built an early particle accelerator, the Cockcroft-Walton generator, and used it to split lithium nuclei by bombarding them with accelerated protons, the first time a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Cockcroft.
Facts
Death PlaceBelfast, United Kingdom 1 NationalityUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1 Field
Field (category) Connections
Member Of
Source Ernest Walton (Wikipedia)
Works In
Source Ernest Walton (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Nationality
Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.
Source Ernest Walton (Wikidata)
Sources
1. Ernest Walton (Wikidata)
P570 (date of death): year
+1995-06-25T00:00:00Z
P570 (date of death): full date
+1995-06-25T00:00:00Z
P27 (country of citizenship): Ireland
Q27
P20 (place of death): Belfast, United Kingdom
Q10686
P27 (country of citizenship): United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Q174193
P20 (place of death): Dublin, Ireland
Q1761
P27 (country of citizenship): Irish Free State
Q31747
P19 (place of birth): Abbeyside, Ireland
Q2090795
View the SourceErnest Walton (Wikipedia)
Works In: Physics, Infobox, fields
Infobox fields: Physics
Member Of: University of Cambridge, Infobox: workplaces
University of Cambridge Trinity College Dublin
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.