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...
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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...
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best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator. In experiments...
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Homi J. Bhabha (category Cathedral and John Connon School alumni)
chemicals and hydroelectric power which the Tata Group invested in. John Cockcroft remarked that overhearing these conversations should have inspired Bhabha's...
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John R. Cockcroft is Professor of Cardiology at the Heart Research Institute in Cardiff, Wales. Cockcroft also holds the position of Special Professor...
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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...
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foremost centres for the study of physics, attracting students like John Cockcroft, Norman Feather, and Mark Oliphant. Chadwick followed his discovery...
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accelerator physics named after Sir John D. Cockcroft Cockcroft, lunar crater named after Sir John D. Cockcroft John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 1934), British Conservative...
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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...
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established at RAF Harwell, south of Oxford, under the directorship of John Cockcroft. Christopher Hinton agreed to oversee the design, construction and operation...
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Cambridge in February 1932. In April 1932, his Cavendish colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split lithium atoms with accelerated protons. Enrico...
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Institute is named after the Nobel prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft FRS. The present director of the Cockcroft Institute is Stewart Boogert, who replaced the...
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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...
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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...
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the United States access to its research, and the Tizard Mission's John Cockcroft briefed American scientists on British developments. He discovered that...
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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...
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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...
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(1892–1962) Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) Charles Drummond Ellis (1895–1980) John Cockcroft (1897–1967) Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974) Ukichiro Nakaya...
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Left to right: William Penney, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls and John Cockcroft in 1946...
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but this did not translate into scientific discovery. In April 1932, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton at the Cavendish Laboratory in England announced that...
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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...
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controlled manner was performed by students working under his direction; John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. Physical Chemistry (originally the department of...
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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...
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reaction involving high-energy protons bombarding lithium, demonstrated by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, in 1932. Now, Szilárd proposed to use neutrons theoretically...
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or Medicine, 1953 Archer John Porter Martin, Chemistry, 1952 Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Chemistry, 1952 John Cockcroft, Physics, 1951 Bertrand...
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(Royal Navy) Group Captain F.L. Pearce (Royal Air Force) Professor John Cockcroft (Army Research) - nuclear physicist and Assistant Director of Scientific...
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1935) James Chadwick (Physics – 1935) Patrick Blackett (Physics – 1948) John Cockcroft (Physics – 1951) Ernest Hemingway (Literature – 1954) Alexander R. Todd...
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Peter Thonemann that included a more practical heating arrangement, John Cockcroft began to take the concept more seriously, establishing small study groups...
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calculations. Nuclear experiments began using a particle accelerator built by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton at Ernest Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory at the...
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reaction and nuclear transmutation was achieved by Rutherford's colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who used artificially accelerated protons against...
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