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  John Cockcroft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cockcroft was born in Todmorden, England the eldest son of a Mill owner.
In 1951 Cockcroft, along with Walton, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the use of accelerated particles to study the atomic nucleus.
Cockcroft served as chancellor of the Australian National University from 1961-65.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
COCKCROFT, SIR JOHN DOUGLAS [Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas] 1897-1967, English physicist, educated at the Univ. of Manchester and St. John's College, Cambridge.
He was a fellow of St. John's College (1928-46) and professor of natural philosophy at Cambridge (1939-46).
The 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Cockcroft and E. Walton for their pioneering work in transmuting atomic nuclei by bombarding elements with artificially accelerated atomic particles.
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 John Douglas Cockcroft Biography / Biography of John Douglas Cockcroft Main Biography
John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967) was an English physicist.
John Cockcroft was born in Todmorden, Lancashire, on May 27, 1897.
Cockcroft was one of the gifted young physicists whom Ernest Rutherford gathered at the Cavendish Laboratory.
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 Sir John Douglas Cockcroft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
British physicist, joint winner, with Ernest T.S. Walton of Ireland, of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering the use of particle accelerators in studying the atomic nucleus.
Educated at the University of Manchester and St. John's College, Cambridge, Cockcroft was Jacksonian professor of natural philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 to 1946.
In 1946 he became director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply, at Harwell, Berkshire, and was a chairman in the Ministry of Defence from 1952 to 1954.
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 Janus: The Papers of Sir John Cockcroft
John Douglas Cockcroft was born in Langfield, Yorkshire, 27 May 1897, the son of John Arthur Cockcroft and Annie Maude Fielden.
He was an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, 1946-67; President of Manchester College of Science and Technology, 1961-7; and Chancellor of the Australian National University, 1961-5.
Biographical information was obtained from "Who's Who 1897-1996" (A and C Black); Sir John Cockcroft's obituary in "The Times", 19 September 1967; and the websites of the Nobel Foundation and the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography".
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 John Douglas Cockcroft
He received a mathematics degree from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1924, and began research work under Ernest Rutherford.
He was knighted in 1948, and was created Knight Commander of the Bath in 1953.
Cockcroft married Eunice Elizabeth Crabtree in 1925 and had four daughters and a son.
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 Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas, 1897–1967, English physicist, educated at the Univ. of Manchester and St. John's College, Cambridge.
He was a fellow of St. John's College (1928–46) and professor of natural philosophy at Cambridge (1939–46).
After serving (1941–44) as chief superintendent of the Air Defence Research and Development Establishment, he directed (1944–46) the atomic energy division of the National Research Council of Canada and became (1946) the director of the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment.
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 John Douglas Cockcroft Biography / Biography of John Douglas Cockcroft 1900 To 1949: Physical Sciences Biography
John Douglas Cockcroft Biography / Biography of John Douglas Cockcroft 1900 To 1949: Physical Sciences Biography
British physicist who was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics with Ernest Walton for pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by accelerated particles.
Cockcroft played an integral role in the development of nuclear energy as an atomic advisor to the British government and as the leader of various nuclear research projects and facilities, including head of Britain's first atomic energy research laboratory at Harwell.
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 John Cockcroft - Biography
John Douglas Cockcroft was born at Todmorden, England, on May 27th, 1897.
In 1929 he was elected to a Fellowship in St. John's College and became successively University demonstrator, lecturer and in 1939 Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy.
In September 1939 he took up a war-time appointment as Assistant Director of Scientific Research in the Ministry of Supply and started to work on the application of radar to coast and air defence problems.
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 Cockcroft (The University of Manchester)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Michael Parker, Group Chief Executive of British Nuclear Fuels PLC, is to deliver the prestigious Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture at the University of Manchester on November 3.
The annual lecture series is held in memory of alumnus Sir John Cockcroft and of Lord Ernest Rutherford, whose work in the early 1900s laid the foundations of all future nuclear research.
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was jointly awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work into transmuting the atomic nuclei which built on Rutherfords pioneering research.
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He was instrumental with Sir John Cockcroft in splitting the atom in April 1932.
Both failed, mainly because the available power sources could not generate the necessary energies, but his methods were later developed and used in the betatron and the linear accelerator.
Then in 1929 Cockcroft and Walton devised an accelerator that generated large numbers of particles at lower energies.
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 Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist, the winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics along with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft.
He became a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1934, and was appointed Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in 1946.
He and John Cockcroft were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles carried out in the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge.
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Co-winner of The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 for pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
Physicists Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split the atom for the first time.
A life-long pacifist, Walton's life was governed by unshakeable principles, a conviction derived from his steadfast Methodist faith.
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 Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
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Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas COCKCROFT, SIR JOHN DOUGLAS [Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas] 1897-1967, English physicist, educated at the Univ. of Manchester and St. John's College, Cambridge.
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Born 6 Oct 1903; died 25 Jun 1995.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist, who was corecipient, with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft of England, of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for the development of the first nuclear particle accelerator, known as the Cockcroft-Walton generator.
The accelerator was built in a disused room in the Cavendish Laboratory, and supplied with several hundred kilovolts from a voltage multiplier circuit designed and built by Cockroft and Walton.
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 TUBITAK-GMBAE: 1950-1999 Nobel Odulleri Listesi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
Research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.
Discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various type of tissue.
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