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Cock⋅croft

  [kok-krawft, -kroft]
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–noun
Sir John Douglas, 1897–1967, English physicist: Nobel prize 1951.
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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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