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an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, "splitting the atom"
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in physics (shared ) (1951)
"for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"
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Born
6 October 1903 Abbeyside, Waterford, Ireland
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Died
25 June 1995 (aged 91) Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Known for
The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons ( " splitting the atom " )
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Fields
Physics
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Alma mater
Trinity College Dublin Trinity College, Cambridge
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Awards
Hughes Medal (1938) Nobel Prize in Physics (1951)
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Institutions
Trinity College Dublin University of Cambridge Methodist College Belfast Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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Doctoral advisor
Ernest Rutherford
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