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    Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics...
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    pulsing DC input. It was named after the British and Irish physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, who in 1932 used this circuit design...
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  • published under the name Luke Rhinehart Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897–1967), British nuclear physicist The Cockcroft Institute, British research centre for...
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    multiplier used in high-energy physics is the Cockcroft–Walton generator (which was designed by John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton for a particle...
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    Ernest Walton, winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics. With Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, he was the first to split the nucleus of the atom by artificial...
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  • construction of the first particle accelerator in 1932. Physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton performed their first experiment with their accelerator...
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    Theodore von Kármán, 1962 Franz Patat, 1962 Albert Caquot, 1962 Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, 1961 Rudolf Vogel [de], 1961 Paul Harteck, 1961 Sir Howard Walter...
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    developing cloud chamber and confirming/discovering positron. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (awarded Nobel Prize in 1951), for his pioneer work on the splitting...
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    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1977.0020. Oliphant, M. L. E.; Penney, L. (1968). "John Douglas Cockcroft. 1897-1967". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
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    electromagnetic radiation, Prince Bernhard (1951), prince of the Netherlands, John Douglas Cockcroft (1959), winner of Nobel Prize in Physics for work on atom splitting...
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  • of Cambridge led by Sir Lawrence Bragg. Nobel Prizes Physics – John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton Chemistry – Edwin Mattison McMillan;...
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  • Royal Society elected in 1936. Alexander Craig Aitken Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Herbert John Fleure Sir Clive Forster-Cooper Sir Alexander Gibb Sir Henry...
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  • discover mesons using nuclear emulsions. PhD in cosmic rays 1949. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (awarded Nobel prize in 1951), for his pioneering work with Rutherford...
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    April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - John Douglas Cockcroft". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
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  • (1873–1962) WGPSN Cockcroft 31°05′N 162°55′W / 31.09°N 162.91°W / 31.09; -162.91 (Cockcroft) 92.16 1970 John Douglas Cockcroft (1897–1967) WGPSN Collins...
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    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1976.0002. Oliphant, M. L. E.; Penney, L. (1968). "John Douglas Cockcroft. 1897-1967". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
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  • Lord Weeks (LLD) 1956 Alderman/Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd (LLD) Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (DSc) James Bryant Conant (LLD) Sir George Dyson (LLD) James Digby...
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    Easter 1956, and on 8 June the school was officially opened by Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. Several additions were made to the school over the coming years...
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  • Physics jointly introduced an exchange lecture program in honor of John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton and Homi J. Bhabha in 1998, he was...
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    Vice-Admiral Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett CB CBE DSO Sir John Douglas Cockcroft CBE Chairman, Defence Research Policy Committee and Scientific Adviser...
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  • Purcell, Chief Scientific Adviser, Home Office. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, KCB, CBE. Sir Pierson John Dixon, KCMG, CB, Permanent United Kingdom Representative...
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  • 19 August 1853 William Cockburn 1696-11-30 1669 – November 1739 John Douglas Cockcroft 1936-05-07 27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967 Christopher Sydney Cockerell...
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  • Secretary, National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. Professor John Douglas Cockcroft, PhD, FRS, Chief Superintendent, Air Defence Research & Development...
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    of the atomic nucleus in 1932 by Ernest Walton (Trinity) and John Cockcroft (St John's), for which they jointly received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics...
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  • Harold Claughton, CBE, MA, Principal of the University of London. John Douglas Cockcroft, CBE, PhD, LLD, MSc, MIEE, FRS, Director, Atomic Energy Research...
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    the first controlled experiment to split the nucleus was performed by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under his direction. In honour of his scientific...
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    Homi J. Bhabha (category Cathedral and John Connon School alumni)
    chemicals and hydroelectric power which the Tata Group invested in. John Cockcroft remarked that overhearing these conversations should have inspired Bhabha's...
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  • "The extrovert lifestyle of the former Mrs Nathaniel Rothschild" By Lucy Cockcroft 23 October 2008. Sheffield, Hazel (15 April 2015). "This is what Nat Rothschild's...
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    October 2012 at the Wayback Machine. BBC. Retrieved 7 December 2016 Fisher, Douglas; et al. (2004). "Interactive Read-Alouds: Is There a Common Set of Implementation...
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    A.; Bunkley-Williams, L.; Bonde, R. K.; Self-Sullivan, C.; Preen, A.; Cockcroft, V. G. (2003). "Echeneid-sirenian associations, with information on sharksucker...
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