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Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967

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Personal name headingCockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967
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Variant(s)Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897-1967
Birth date1897-05-27
Death date1967-09-18
Place of birthTodmorden (England)
Place of deathCambridge (England)
Profession or occupationPhysicists Nobel Prize winners
Found inHartcup, G. Cockcroft and the atom, c1984: t.p. (Cockcroft)
LC data base, 5-29-84 (hdg.: Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897-1967; usage: Sir John Cockcroft)
Wikipedia, November 10, 2016 (John Cockcroft; Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (27 May 1897 - 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power; born Todmorden (England); died Cambridge (England); studied electrical engineering at Manchester Municipal College of Technology; won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge; Ernest Rutherford accepted him as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory, and Cockcroft completed his doctorate under Rutherford's supervision in 1928; known for splitting the atom)
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