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cockcroft

/ˈkɒk.krɒft/

Traducción: Apellido propio, asociado al físico británico que, junto con Ernest Walton, logró la primera desintegración artificial del núcleo atómico en 1931.

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/ˈkɒk.krɒft/formalbritishscientific
  • esApellido propio, asociado al físico británico que, junto con Ernest Walton, logró la primera desintegración artificial del núcleo atómico en 1931.

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

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  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.

    esFísico británico

    • 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.