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Ernest Walton

Ernest Walton
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles." According to their Nobel Prize speech: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear…

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  1. Andrey KolmogorovApril 25, 1903 – October 20, 1987
  2. Ernest Walton (this page)October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995
  3. Georges de RhamSeptember 10, 1903 – October 7, 1990
  4. Hugo TheorellJuly 6, 1903 – August 15, 1982
  5. Lars OnsagerNovember 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976
  6. W. V. D. HodgeJune 17, 1903 – July 7, 1975

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