Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
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 tr...
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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 m...
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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 questi...
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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. Cockro...
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Ernest Walton was an Irish experimental physicist who gained renown for achieving, with physicist John D. Cockcroft, the first artificial disintegration of an atomic nucleus, without the use of radioa...
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