John Cockcroft

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of nuclear power and weapons.

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Who was born first?

• John Cockcroft and Tadeusz Reichstein were born the same year
• John Cockcroft and Odd Hassel were born the same year
• John Cockcroft and Patrick Blackett were born the same year
• John Cockcroft and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish were born the same year
• John Cockcroft and John Franklin Enders were born the same year

Timeline

1. John Cockcroft (this page)May 27, 1897 – September 18, 1967
2. John Franklin EndersFebruary 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985
3. Odd HasselMay 17, 1897 – May 11, 1981
4. Patrick BlackettNovember 18, 1897 – July 13, 1974
5. Ronald George Wreyford NorrishNovember 9, 1897 – June 7, 1978
6. Tadeusz ReichsteinJuly 8, 1897 – August 1, 1996

Related

• Albert EinsteinMarch 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955
• Isaac NewtonDecember 25, 1642 – March 20, 1727
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAugust 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832
• Galileo GalileiFebruary 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642
• Immanuel KantApril 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804
• René DescartesMarch 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650
• Thomas EdisonFebruary 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931
• Marie CurieNovember 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934