| Date of Birth | 06-October-1903 | |
| Place of Birth |
Dungarvan (Ireland, County Waterford) |
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| Nationality | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom | |
| Also know as | Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton | |
| Profession | Physicist | |
| Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to artificially split the atom, thus ushering the nuclear age. | ||
Awards by Ernest Walton |
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| Check all the awards nominated and won by Ernest Walton. | ||
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1938
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