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    Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who first split the atom. He is best known for his...
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    experiment to split the nucleus was performed by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under his direction. In honour of his scientific advancements...
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    Thomas Moore and William Congreve; Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett, Ernest Walton, Mairead Maguire and William Cecil Campbell; former Presidents of Ireland...
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    Ernest Veuve (1843–1916), American Civil War soldier Ernest Vinberg (1937–2020), Russian mathematician Ernest Walker (disambiguation) Ernest Walton (1903–1995)...
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    translate into scientific discovery. In April 1932, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton at the Cavendish Laboratory in England announced that they had bombarded...
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    May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus...
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    to the device were considered by scientists including Rolf Wideroe, Ernest Walton, and Max Steenbeck. The first working betatron was constructed by Donald...
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    started in October 1944 by an unknown colleague of the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton while he was in the physics department of Trinity College. This experiment...
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    Another experiment was started by a colleague of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton in the physics department of Trinity College in Ireland in 1944. Over...
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    1794), historian, writer, clergyman and physician. Calder Walton, historian and current Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, Harvard Kennedy School...
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    transmutation was achieved by Rutherford's colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who used artificially accelerated protons against lithium-7 to split...
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    performed by students working under his direction; John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. Physical Chemistry (originally the department of Colloid Science led...
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    transmutation was achieved by Rutherford's colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who used artificially accelerated protons against lithium-7, to split...
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    reaction and nuclear transmutation was achieved by Rutherford's colleagues Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft, who used artificially accelerated protons against...
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    Alice Louise Walton (born October 7, 1949) is an American heiress to the fortune of Walmart as daughter of founder Sam Walton. In September 2016, she owned...
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    Tadeus Reichstein Bertrand Russell Ralph Bunche 1951 John Cockcroft; Ernest Walton Edwin McMillan; Glenn T. Seaborg Max Theiler Pär Lagerkvist Léon Jouhaux...
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  • artificially accelerated protons (splitting the atom) discovered by Ernest Walton et al. 1946: Ejection seat - first live test of a reliable, successful...
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    James Carr Walton (born June 7, 1948) is an American businessman, currently an heir to the fortune of Walmart, the world's largest retailer. As of November...
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  • MacBride, born in France, Peace, 1974 Samuel Beckett, Literature, 1969 Ernest Walton, Physics, 1951 George Bernard Shaw*, Literature, 1925 W. B. Yeats, Literature...
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    many prominent guests and some of its most notable members include Ernest Walton, John Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde. The...
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    constructed in the early 1990s. This building was named after Methody alumnus Ernest Walton, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atom. In 2005...
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  • Anthony John Walton (24 October 1934 – 2 March 2022) was a British set and costume designer. He won three Tony Awards, an Academy Award, and a Emmy Award...
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    Robert Van de Graaff in 1929, and the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator invented by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton in 1932. The maximum particle energy produced...
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  • high-energy protons bombarding lithium, demonstrated by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, in 1932. Now, Szilárd proposed to use neutrons theoretically produced...
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    and the first "splitting" of the atomic nucleus by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton.: 36–37  Russian physicists began pushing the government, lobbying in...
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  • Tyler Walton (born September 19, 1986) is an American billionaire heir. He is the grandson of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart. Lukas Walton is the...
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  • is also called a Cockcroft–Walton multiplier after the particle accelerator machine built by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who independently discovered...
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    specifically on the recent 1932 work of his students, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, in "splitting" lithium into alpha particles, by bombardment with protons...
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    transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles" Ernest Walton (1903–1995)  Ireland 1952 Felix Bloch (1905–1983)  United States "for...
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    multiple people at a time; in 1938 it was won by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton "for their discovery that nuclei could be disintegrated by artificially...
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