John Douglas Cockcroft
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 particle...
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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 prod...
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft made substantial contributions to the field of nuclear physics, designing the first particle accelerator and discovering the transmutations of atomic nuclei induced by artif...
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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 univ...
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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-manufactu...
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John Douglas Cockcroft
John Douglas Cockcroft
John Douglas Cockcroft, Sir
John Douglas Cockcroft
John Douglas Cockroft