Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics...

John Hoyle Cockcroft (6 July 1934 – 25 April 2023) was a British Conservative politician and journalist. Cockcroft was born on 6 July 1934 in Todmorden...

best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator. In experiments...

chemicals and hydroelectric power which the Tata Group invested in. John Cockcroft remarked that overhearing these conversations should have inspired Bhabha's...

the first controlled experiment to split the nucleus was performed by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under his direction. In honour of his scientific...

foremost centres for the study of physics, attracting students like John Cockcroft, Norman Feather, and Mark Oliphant. Chadwick followed his discovery...

low-voltage AC. It was named after the British and Irish physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, who in 1932 used this circuit design...

accelerator physics named after Sir John D. Cockcroft Cockcroft, lunar crater named after Sir John D. Cockcroft John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 1934), British Conservative...

John R. Cockcroft is Professor of Cardiology at the Heart Research Institute in Cardiff, Wales. Cockcroft also holds the position of Special Professor...

pioneering work in neutron spectroscopy while at CRL from 1950 to 1962. Sir John Cockcroft was an early director of CRL and also a Nobel laureate. Until the shutdown...

established at RAF Harwell, south of Oxford, under the directorship of John Cockcroft. Christopher Hinton agreed to oversee the design, construction and operation...

Nobel Peace Prize twice. Also the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen twice, as was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger and...

of the atomic nucleus in 1932 by Ernest Walton (Trinity) and John Cockcroft (St John's), for which they jointly received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics...

Cambridge in February 1932. In April 1932, his Cavendish colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split lithium atoms with accelerated protons. Enrico...

the United States access to its research, and the Tizard Mission's John Cockcroft briefed American scientists on British developments. He discovered that...

occasion been awarded to multiple people at a time; in 1938 it was won by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton "for their discovery that nuclei could be disintegrated...

invented by Robert Van de Graaff in 1929, and the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator invented by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton in 1932. The maximum particle...

Left to right: William Penney, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls and John Cockcroft in 1946...

Institute is named after the Nobel prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft FRS. The present director of the Cockcroft Institute is Stewart Boogert, who replaced the...

or Medicine, 1953 Archer John Porter Martin, Chemistry, 1952 Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Chemistry, 1952 John Cockcroft, Physics, 1951 Bertrand...

Peter Thonemann that included a more practical heating arrangement, John Cockcroft began to take the concept more seriously, establishing small study groups...

Paul Wigner 1960 – Alvin M. Weinberg and Walter Henry Zinn 1961 – Sir John Cockcroft 1963 – Edwin M. McMillan and Vladimir I. Veksler 1967 – Isidor I. Rabi...

known from 2006 as the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. In 1945 John Cockcroft was asked to set up a research laboratory to further the use of nuclear...

(1892–1962) Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) Charles Drummond Ellis (1895–1980) John Cockcroft (1897–1967) Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974) Ukichiro Nakaya...

in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William...

at a former airfield, Harwell, in Berkshire, under the direction of John Cockcroft. The first nuclear reactor in the UK, a small research reactor known...

controlled manner was performed by students working under his direction; John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. Physical Chemistry (originally the department of...

reaction and nuclear transmutation was achieved by Rutherford's colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who used artificially accelerated protons against...

– Physics, for the behaviour of electrons in magnetic solids, 1977 John Cockcroft – Physics, for using accelerated particles to study atomic nuclei, 1951...

(Royal Navy) Group Captain F.L. Pearce (Royal Air Force) Professor John Cockcroft (Army Research) - nuclear physicist and Assistant Director of Scientific...