Cockcroft (redirected from Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas)

Cock·croft  (kkkrôft, -krft), Sir John Douglas 1897-1967.

British physicist who with Ernest Walton succeeded in splitting the atom (1931). They shared a 1951 Nobel Prize for their contributions to nuclear physics.

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Cockcroft - British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967) Sir John Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft