John Cockcroft
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1951for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particlesTogether with: Ernest Walton
- Citizenship
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United Kingdom - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 5/27/1897
- place of birth
- Todmorden
- date of death
- 9/18/1967
- place of death
- Churchill College
- Lived
- 70 years
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- employer
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- Montreal Laboratory
- Australian National University
- Chalk River Laboratories
- Ministry of Supply
- Atomic Energy Research Establishment
- member of
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- Royal Society of London
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- educated at
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- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- Richard Huish College, Taunton
- Victoria University of Manchester
- St John's College
- University of Cambridge
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- nuclear physicist
- doctoral student
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- Don Misener