Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Nobel Prize in Physics 1951
“for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles”
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles. He was affiliated with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment.
- Field
- Physics · Nuclear Physics
- Lifespan
- 1897–1967