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    Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics...
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  • John Hoyle Cockcroft (6 July 1934 – 25 April 2023) was a British Conservative politician and journalist. Cockcroft was born on 6 July 1934 in Todmorden...
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    best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator. In experiments...
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    the first controlled experiment to split the nucleus was performed by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under his direction. In honour of his scientific...
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    Homi J. Bhabha (category Cathedral and John Connon School alumni)
    chemicals and hydroelectric power which the Tata Group invested in. John Cockcroft remarked that overhearing these conversations should have inspired Bhabha's...
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    foremost centres for the study of physics, attracting students like John Cockcroft, Norman Feather, and Mark Oliphant. Chadwick followed his discovery...
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    pulsing DC input. It was named after the British and Irish physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, who in 1932 used this circuit design...
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  • John R. Cockcroft is Professor of Cardiology at the Heart Research Institute in Cardiff, Wales. Cockcroft also holds the position of Special Professor...
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    Cambridge in February 1932. In April 1932, his Cavendish colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split lithium atoms with accelerated protons. Enrico...
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  • (1892–1962) Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) Charles Drummond Ellis (1895–1980) John Cockcroft (1897–1967) Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974) Ukichiro Nakaya...
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