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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951

John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

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 transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"

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