LC control no. | n 84066774 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967 |
Variant(s) | Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897-1967 |
Birth date | 1897-05-27 |
Death date | 1967-09-18 |
Place of birth | Todmorden (England) |
Place of death | Cambridge (England) |
Profession or occupation | Physicists Nobel Prize winners |
Found in | Hartcup, 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) |
Associated language | eng |