Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
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27 May 1897 Todmorden, England
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Died |
18 September 1967 (aged 70) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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