John Cockcroft
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a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power
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Born
27 May 1897 Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died
18 September 1967 (aged 70) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Nationality
British
Known for
Splitting the atom
Fields
Physics
Alma mater
Victoria University of Manchester Manchester Municipal College of Technology St. John's College, Cambridge
Awards
Hughes Medal (1938) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1944) Knight Bachelor (1948) Nobel Prize in Physics (1951) Royal Medal (1954) Faraday Medal (1955) Order of Merit (1957) Atoms for Peace
Institutions
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Academic advisors
Ernest Rutherford
adultbasic
Britain
era
1800+
Succeeded by
Sir William Hawthorne
Thesis
On phenomena occurring in the condensation of molecular streams on surfaces (1928)