List of Famous people with last name Cockcroft

John Cockcroft

First Name John

Last Name Cockcroft

Born on May 27, 1897

Died on September 18, 1967 (aged 70)

Born in United Kingdom, England

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

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