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Cockcroft

NOUN
  1. British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)

How To Use Cockcroft In A Sentence

  • The two men who actually built the first accelerator were John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, graduate students working in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge under the supervision of Rutherford.
  • Rutherford arranged for Walton to work full-time on the accelerator project, with Cockcroft working on it part-time to help with the engineering.
  • Harwell's director, Sir John Cockcroft, was an enthusiastic supporter of fusion research.
  • Thus, despite the difficulties, some modification appears to have taken place consistent with the recommendations of the Cockcroft Report.
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