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cockcroft

/ˈkɒk.krɒft/

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noun

/ˈkɒk.krɒft/formalbritishscientific
  • ruИмя собственное, относящееся к британскому физику, который вместе с Эрнестом Уолтоном впервые расщепил атом в 1931 году.

A proper noun referring to a British physicist who, along with Ernest Walton, first split an atom in 1931.

uncountable · proper noun

  1. C1formalbritishscientific

    Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897–1967) was a British physicist who, together with Ernest Walton, first split the atom in 1931, pioneering nuclear physics.

    ruБританский физик

    • Cockcroft and Walton built the first particle accelerator to split the atom.
    • The Cockcroft–Walton generator is named after him and his colleague.
    • He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for his work on nuclear transmutation.