ernest walton

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Noun ernest walton has 1 sense

Walton, E. T. S. Walton, Ernest Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton - Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
--₁ is a kind of nuclear physicist

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Ernest Walton

Noun:

Ernest Walton refers to an Irish physicist who, along with John Cockcroft, became the first to artificially split an atomic nucleus using a particle accelerator. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for his outstanding contributions to the development of nuclear physics.

Example Sentences:

Ernest Walton's groundbreaking work in nuclear physics paved the way for further scientific discoveries.
The collaboration between Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft revolutionized the field of particle physics.

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