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 IrelandIrelandIrish Free State
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

occupation: university teacher
physicist
field of work: particle physics
physics
nuclear physics
educated at: Trinity College, Dublin
start time: 1922
end time: 1927
Methodist College Belfast
start time: 1915
end time: 1922
Trinity College
start time: 1927
end time: 1931
Cookstown High School
employer: Trinity College, Dublin
start time: 1934
end time: 1974
University of Cambridge
start time: 1931
end time: 1934
position held: Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
start time: 1946
end time: 1974

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