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Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton (1903–1995) was an Irish physicist. He became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1934 and professor of natural and experimental philosophy there in 1946. The 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Walton and Sir John Douglas Cockcroft for their pioneer work in transmuting atomic nuclei by bombarding elements with artificially accelerated atomic particles.
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- [http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/ernest_thomas_sinton_walton.html Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
