John Cockcroft Scientist

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	May 27, 1897
Birth place	Todmorden
Date of death	September 18, 1967
Place of death	Cambridge
Education	St John's College Cambridge University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Victoria University of Manchester
Known for	Atom