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John Cockcroft

1897 - 1967

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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for splitting the atomic nucleus, which was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. After service on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War, Cockcroft studied electrical engineering at Manchester Municipal College of Technology whilst he was an apprentice at Metropolitan Vickers Trafford Park and was also a member of their research staff. He then won a scholarship to St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Cockcroft has received more than 374,564 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). John Cockcroft is the 263rd most popular physicist (down from 259th in 2019), the 723rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 846th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Physicist.

John Cockcroft was a British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for his work on splitting the atom. He is also known for his work on the Cockcroft-Walton generator, which was used to generate high voltages for particle accelerators.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Cockcroft ranks 263 out of 851. Before him are Otto Robert Frisch, Rainer Weiss, Syukuro Manabe, Max Delbrück, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Julian Schwinger. After him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Daniel Rutherford, John Vincent Atanasoff, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Andrew Huxley, and Jagadish Chandra Bose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, John Cockcroft ranks 47. Before him are Vlado Chernozemski, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joseph Berchtold, John Franklin Enders, Leonid Govorov, and Gershom Scholem. After him are Margaret Mahler, Emil Maurice, Vasily Sokolovsky, Ye Jianying, Herbert Gille, and Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco. Among people deceased in 1967, John Cockcroft ranks 37. Before him are Brian Epstein, Robert van Gulik, Héctor Scarone, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Ossip Zadkine, and Totò. After him are Harald Quandt, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Vladimir Bartol, Violeta Parra, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, and Otis Redding.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cockcroft ranks 723 out of 8,785. Before him are William Byrd (1543), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765), Charles Vane (1680), Matt Busby (1909), and William Tyndale (1494). After him are Robert Grosseteste (1175), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Mary Quant (1930), David Hockney (1937), Daniel Rutherford (1749), and Deborah Kerr (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Cockcroft ranks 30. Before him are William Shockley (1910), John Kendrew (1917), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Charles Wheatstone (1802), and David Brewster (1781). After him are Daniel Rutherford (1749), Andrew Huxley (1917), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), and Freeman Dyson (1923).

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