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John Cockcroft

1897 - 1967

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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and 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 349,044 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). John Cockcroft is the 259th most popular physicist (down from 232nd in 2019), the 847th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 750th in 2019) and the 34th 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 259 out of 717. Before him are Joseph Plateau, Gérard Mourou, Klaus Fuchs, Daniel Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, and Anthony James Leggett. After him are Moshé Feldenkrais, Rainer Weiss, Abdul Qadeer Khan, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Philip Warren Anderson, and Hugh David Politzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, John Cockcroft ranks 52. Before him are Vasily Sokolovsky, Emil Maurice, Herbert Gille, Dmitry Pavlov, Georg Wittig, and Jiroemon Kimura. After him are Patrick Blackett, Virginia Henderson, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Ye Jianying, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, and Hans Baur. Among people deceased in 1967, John Cockcroft ranks 44. Before him are G. W. Pabst, Harald Quandt, Brian Epstein, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Joseph Pilates, and Anthony Mann. After him are Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Lorenzo Bandini, Tamara Bunke, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, and Gus Grissom.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cockcroft ranks 847 out of 7,765. Before him are Peter Finch (1916), Robert Graves (1895), Richard Hamilton (1922), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764), and John Cale (1942). After him are Damon Hill (1960), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), Albert Pierrepoint (1905), W. H. Auden (1907), Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), and Olave Baden-Powell (1889).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Cockcroft ranks 34. Before him are John Kendrew (1917), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Osborne Reynolds (1842), and Anthony James Leggett (1938). After him are Joseph Swan (1828), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Freeman Dyson (1923), Peter Mansfield (1933), and William Whewell (1794).

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