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Noun Named Entity
Categories: 1897 births, Chancellors of the Australian National University, Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester, Presidents of the Institute of Physics, Recipients of the Medal of Freedom
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Cockcroft  Sir John Cockcroft  Sir John Douglas Cockcroft  John Cockcroft  Cockcroft's Follies
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British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967) WordNet 3.0
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British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. Wikipedia
IS A
nuclear physicist
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
knight bachelor
Atoms for Peace Award
Faraday Medal
Royal Medal
Institute of Physics Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize
+11 relations
CONFLICT
World War I
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Obalky knih.cz
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Rutherford
EDUCATED AT
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
St John's College, Cambridge
Victoria University of Manchester
EMPLOYER
Montreal Laboratory
Ministry of Supply
Australian National University
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Chalk River Laboratories
FAMILY NAME
Cockcroft
FIELD OF WORK
physics
GIVEN NAME
John
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
MILITARY BRANCH
British Army
Royal Artillery
NOMINATED FOR
Nobel Prize in Physics
OCCUPATION
physicist
professeur des universités
PARTICIPANT IN
Manhattan Project
PLACE OF BIRTH
Todmorden
PLACE OF BURIAL
Ascension Parish Burial Ground
PLACE OF DEATH
Churchill College, Cambridge
SEX OR GENDER
male
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Cockcroft, Sir John Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Wikipedia
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John Cockcroft
Wikidata
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John Cockcroft
Wikipedia Redirections
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Cockcroft's Follies, Cockcroft's Folly, Cockcroft, John, John Cockroft, John Douglas Cockcroft, John Douglas Cockroft, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Wikidata Alias
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John Douglas Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

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