John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967) was an English physicist. His main contribution to physics consisted in designing a linear accelerator capable of giving such a speed to charged particles as to produce the transmutation of atomic nuclei. John...

Cockcroft was born in Todmorden, England, on May 27, 1897, the son of a textile manufacturer. After completing secondary school at Todmorden in 1914, he entered Manchester University. He left the university after only one year to join the British army...

Todmorden, in Lancashire, had been the home of the Cockroft family for more than 400 years when John was born there on May 27, 1897. The Cockrofts had been involved in the weaving and cotton-manufacturing process for most of that time. Young John...

1897-1967 British physicist who was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics with Ernest Walton for pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by accelerated particles. Cockcroft played an integral role in the development of nuclear energy...

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM, KCB, CBE (May 27, 1897 – September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. Cockcroft was...

Introduction Soon after the Cockcroft report was published in 1982 ATM organised two writing weekends about the report, to which it invited a wide range of members involved in different aspects of mathematical education. The members divided into groups and our group found...

JANET COCKCROFT was a campaigner for women's health and for equal rights for women; from the age of eight, she dedicated her life to the alleviation of women's suffering and death in childbirth. She was born Janet Mowat in 1916 in Lybster, near...