Ernest Walton
Irish physicist
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who first split the atom. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator. Wikipedia
Born: October 6, 1903, Abbeyside, Ireland
Died: June 25, 1995 (age 91 years), Belfast, United Kingdom
Education: Trinity College (1927–1931), Trinity College Dublin (1922–1927), Methodist College Belfast (1915–1922), and more
Partner: Winifred Walton (1934–)
Academic advisor: Ernest Rutherford
Awards: Hughes Medal (1938) and Nobel Prize in Physics (1951)
Known for: The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons ("splitting the atom")
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