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cockcroft, sir john douglas

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Cock·croft   (kŏk'krôft', -krŏft')   
British physicist who with Ernest Walton succeeded in splitting the atom (1931). They shared a 1951 Nobel Prize for their contributions to nuclear physics.
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Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas

British physicist, joint winner, with Ernest T.S. Walton of Ireland, of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering the use of particle accelerators in studying the atomic nucleus.

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