Ernest Walton
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist, the winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics along with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft.
Walton was born in Dungarvan, County Waterford to a Methodist minister father. He attended day schools in County Tyrone before becoming a boarder at Methodist College Belfast (Methody) in 1915 where he excelled at mathematics. He became a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1934, and was appointed Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in 1946. In 1960 he was elected Senior Fellow.
He and John Cockcroft were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles (popularly known as splitting the atom) carried out in the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge.
In 2002 the Waterford Institute of Technology dedicated their new ICT building the ETS Walton Building.
See also
External links
- [Ernest T. S. Walton – Biography].
- [Boyle & Walton Science Museum Petition].
- [Annotated bibliography for Ernest Walton from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues]
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