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)

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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