Ernest Walton

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 1951

for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles

Together with: John Cockcroft

Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Irish Free State Ireland
Languages: English
date of birth: 10/6/1903
place of birth: Abbeyside
date of death: 6/25/1995
place of death: Belfast, Dublin
Lived: 91 years

position held: Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy

end time: 1974
start time: 1946
employer: Trinity College, Dublin

end time: 1974
start time: 1934

University of Cambridge

end time: 1934
start time: 1931
educated at: Trinity College

end time: 1931
start time: 1927

Trinity College, Dublin

end time: 1927
start time: 1922

Methodist College Belfast

end time: 1922
start time: 1915

Cookstown High School
field of work: physics
particle physics
nuclear physics
occupation: physicist
university teacher

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