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Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
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Ernest Walton
Irish nuclear physicist (1903–1995)
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish nuclear physicist who co-invented the Cockcroft–Walton generator, a type of particle accelerator, and used it for his major work in nuclear transmutation. The accelerator was used to repeatedly bombard lithium with protons, causing the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Physics
One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)