List of Famous people born in Dungarvan, Ireland

Ernest Walton

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

First Name Ernest

Last Name Walton

Born on October 6, 1903

Died on June 25, 1995 (aged 91)

Born in Ireland, Munster, County Waterford, Dungarvan

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Anglo-Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to split the atom.

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