| Date of Birth | 27-May-1897 | |
| Place of Birth |
Todmorden (United Kingdom, Calderdale, England, West Yorkshire) |
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| Nationality | United Kingdom | |
| Also know as | Sir John Douglas Cockcroft | |
| Profession | Physicist | |
| Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. He was the first Master of Churchill College and is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, together with his wife Elizabeth and son John, known as Timothy, who had died at the age of two in 1929. | ||
Awards by John Cockcroft |
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