John douglas cockcroft biography of william

The Cockcroft family settled in Todmorden, on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire, not later than the fifteenth century as peasant farmers on the higher.

  • John Cockcroft was a nuclear physicist at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment.
  • Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (– 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton.
  • Sir John Douglas Cockcroft is best known for his work in Atomic Physics.
  • Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897 - 1967 (Knight, nuclear physicist and first Master of Churchill College).

    • Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (– 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton..

    John Cockcroft

    English physicist (1897–1967)

    For the politician, see John Cockcroft (politician).

    For the cardiologist, see John R. Cockcroft.

    Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for splitting the atomic nucleus, which was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    After service on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War, Cockcroft studied electrical engineering at Manchester Municipal College of Technology whilst he was an apprentice at Metropolitan Vickers Trafford Park and was also a member of their research staff.

    John Cockcroft won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Ernest Walton for producing the first artificial nuclear disintegration in history.

    He then won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he sat the tripos exam in June 1924, becoming a wrangler. Ernest Rutherford accepted Cockcroft as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory, and Cockcroft completed his doctorate under Rutherford's supervision in 1928.

    With Walton and Mark