Ernest Walton
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 29 years ago |
Date of birth | October 6,1903 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Abbeyside |
Ireland | |
Date of died | June 25,1995 |
Died | Belfast |
United Kingdom | |
Field | Physics |
Nationality | British |
Irish | |
Job | Physicist |
Education | University of Cambridge |
Methodist College Belfast | |
Trinity College Dublin | |
Trinity College | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Hughes Medal | |
Current partner | Winifred Walton |
Academic advisor | Ernest Rutherford |
Known for | The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons |
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ID | 571213 |
Ernest Walton Life story
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator.