Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus in 1911 neatly solved one problem in atomic theory--the relative distribution of positive and negative charges in the atom. Consequently, new questions regarding the structure and composition of the...

Walton was born in Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, on October 6, 1903. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Trinity College, University of Dublin, in 1926, and master of science (1928) and master of arts (1934) degrees from the same...

Physicist Ernest Walton (1903-1995) shared the achievement of the first artificial disintegration of an atomic nucleus without the use of radioactive elements. For this work, Walton and John D. Cockroft shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in physics. Ernest...

1903-1995 Irish Physicist Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics with John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967) for their pioneering studies of the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles....

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist and the winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics along with John Cockcroft, for "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s....

Among the items on display in the nuclear physics section of the Science Museum, in London, is an apparatus consisting of an upturned tea- chest lined in lead and open on one side. From it rises a thick glass tube of a kind which...

Ernest Walton, 91, the Nobel laureate who helped usher in the nuclear age in 1932 when he and John Cockcroft split an atom, died June 25 at a hospital in Belfast. No cause of death was given. Mr. Walton and Cockcroft, an Englishman,...