Sir John Douglas Cockcroft è stato un fisico britannico.
Con l'irlandese Ernest Walton, ottenne nel 1932 la disintegrazione nucleare, ottenuta colpendo nuclei di litio e boro con protoni accelerati artificialmente. Wikipedia
Nascita: 27 maggio 1897, Todmorden, Regno Unito
Morte: 18 settembre 1967, Cambridge, Regno Unito
Coniuge: Elizabeth Crabtree (s. 1925)
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft FRS (1897 – 1967) ... Born on 27 May 1897 in Todmorden, straddling the Lancashire–Yorkshire border in northern England. In his early ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 was awarded jointly to Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton "for their pioneer work on the ...
Born in Todmorden, Lancashire, John Cockcroft served as a Signaller in the Royal Artillery from 1915-18, interposing stints studying Mathematics at the ...
Cockcroft was a professor at Cambridge University from 1939 to 1946, the director of the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment from 1946 to 1958, and ...