Ernest Walton Scientist

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) 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.

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Ernest Walton
Birth dateOctober 06, 1903
Birth place
Abbeyside , Dungarvan , County Waterford
Nationality
Ireland
Date of deathJune 25, 1995
Place of death
Belfast

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