Nobel Prize in Physics 1951
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Prize share: 1/2
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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