Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (27 Mey 1897 – 18 September 1967) wis a Breetish pheesicist wha shared the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1951 for splittin the atomic nucleus wi Ernest Walton, an wis instrumental in the development o nuclear pouer.
Quick Facts Sir John Cockcroft, Born ...
Sir John Cockcroft |
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| Born | 27 Mey 1897(1897-05-27)
Todmorden, Wast Yorkshire, Ingland |
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| Dee'd | 18 September 1967(1967-09-18) (aged 70)
Cambridge, Ingland |
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| Naitionality | Unitit Kinrick |
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| Alma mater | Victoria Varsity o Manchester
Manchester Municipal College o Technology
St. John's College, Cambridge |
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| Kent for | Splittin the atom |
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| Awairds |
- Hughes Medal (1938)
- Commander o the Order o the Breetish Empire (1944)
- Knicht Bachelor (1948)
- Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1951)
- Ryal Medal (1954)
- Faraday Medal (1955)
- Order o Meerit (1957)
- Atoms for Peace Awaird (1961)
- Wilhelm Exner Medal (1961)
- Knicht Commander o the Order o the Bath (1963)
- Medal o Freedom wi gowden palms (Unitit States, 1947)
- Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Fraunce, 1950)
- Knicht Commander o the Militar Order o Christ (Portugal, 1955)
- Grand Cross o the Order o Alfonso X (Spain, 1958)
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Pheesics |
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| Institutions | Atomic Energy Research Establishment |
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| Thesis | On phenomena occurring in the condensation of molecular streams on surfaces (1928) |
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| Academic advisors | Ernest Rutherford |
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