Died 1967-09-18.
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John Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of nuclear power and weapons.
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Born 27 May 1897 · Died 18 September 1967 · Q62897
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1967· 1 entry
1961· 2 entries
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1961).
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And the college, still incomplete, was formally opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on 5 June 1964
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1958· 2 entries
Won Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1958).
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And to a resumption of the nuclear Special Relationship between America and Britain under the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1954).
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1953).
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1952).
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1951· 3 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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Cockcroft arranged for the Oxford group to be transferred to Harwell
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1947).
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1944· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1944).
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Won Rutherford Medal and Prize (1944).
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And the Montreal Laboratory was closed in July 1946
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1940· 2 entries
Became part of the Advisory Council for Scientific Research and Technical Development
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As part of the Tizard Mission, he shared British technology with his counterparts in the United States
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1939· 1 entry
And it too would be obsolescent when it was completed after the war
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1938· 2 entries
Won Hughes Medal (1938).
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Sir Henry Tizard showed Cockcroft Chain Home, the ring of coastal early-warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to detect and track aircraft
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1936· 1 entry
And in 1939 was appointed Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy
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1935· 1 entry
Rutherford appointed him the director of research at the Mond Laboratory after Kapitza, who had returned to the Soviet Union
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1931· 1 entry
And in 1933 became the junior bursar, making him responsible for the upkeep of the buildings, many of which were suffering from neglect
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1929· 1 entry
Cockcroft was appointed a Supervisor in Mechanical Sciences at St John's College
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1924· 1 entry
With a Foundation Scholarship of St John's College, and a State Scholarship
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1919· 1 entry
Rutherford had succeeded in disintegrating nitrogen atoms with alpha particles emitted from decaying radium atoms
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1914· 1 entry
Won a County Major Scholarship, West Riding of Yorkshire, to the Victoria University of Manchester, where he studied mathematics
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-05-27.
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