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Ernest Walton
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles." According to their Nobel Prize speech: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control."
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science · Irish physicist (1903–1995) · physicist · university teacher · also Ernest Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Walton
Born 6 October 1903 · Died 25 June 1995 · Q183631
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
Published “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” in International Journal of Information Management — cited 3,517 times.
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Published “<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 3” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 4,178 times.
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2021· 1 entry
Published “<i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 3,752 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles” in Nature — cited 3,619 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries” in The Lancet — cited 4,341 times.
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Published “<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 7,461 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
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Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,591 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The<i>Gaia</i>mission” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 6,433 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Trinity College Dublin set up the Trinity Walton Club, an extracurricular STEM Education centre for teenagers
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 15,631 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-06-25.
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1974· 2 entries
After which he continued to be associated with the physics department at the college
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Retained his association with the Physics Department at Trinity up to his final illness
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1951· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1951).
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1946· 2 entries
Career landmark: Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1946–1974).
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And was promoted to Senior Fellow in 1960
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1938· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1938).
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1934· 2 entries
Walton married Winifred Wilson, the daughter of a Methodist minister
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To become a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in the Physics Department
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1931· 2 entries
And remained at Cambridge as a researcher until 1934
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Studied at Trinity College (1927–1931).
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1927· 2 entries
Was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and was accepted as a research student at Trinity College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford, Director o
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Studied at Trinity College, Dublin (1922–1927).
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1922· 2 entries
Studied at Methodist College Belfast (1915–1922).
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Walton won scholarships to attend Trinity College Dublin for the study of mathematics and science, and would go on to be elected a Foundation Scholar in 1924
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1915· 1 entry
Where he excelled in science and mathematics
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-10-06.
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