John Douglas Cockcroft
Affiliations: | 1928-1946 | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom | |
| 1946-1958 | Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell |
Area:
nuclear physicsWebsite:
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"Sir John Douglas Cockcroft"Bio:
(1897 - 1967)
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.1968.0007
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 was awarded jointly to Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Miles Walker | research assistant | 1919-1922 | Manchester College of Technology | |
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| Pyotr Kapitsa | research assistant | 1922-1925 | Cambridge | |
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| Ernest Rutherford | grad student | 1924-1928 | Cambridge | |
| George Gamow | research scientist | 1929- | Cambridge | |
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Children
Sign in to add trainee| Alexander Walter Merrison | research assistant | ||
| A. Donald Misener | grad student | 1938 | Cambridge (Geotree) |
| Neville Temperley | grad student | 1940 | University of Cambridge, Carnegie-Mellon University, Northwestern University |
| Rappal Sangameswara Krishnan | post-doc | 1938-1941 | Cavendish Lab |
Publications
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| Cockcroft JD. (1965) Britain and Atomic Energy 1939–1945 Physics Bulletin. 16: 63-63 |
| Cockcroft J. (1959) The Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 52: 487-493 |
| Cockcroft J. (1957) Atomic energy and its biological implications. Nature. 180: 64-67 |
| Cockcroft J. (1955) The Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy: The Geneva International Conference Nature. 176: 482-484 |
| Cockcroft JD. (1952) The scientific work of the atomic energy research establishment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 139: 300-313 |
| Cockcroft JD. (1952) The Scientific Work of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 211: 155-168 |
| Cockcroft J. (1951) Experiments On The High-Energy Nucleons And Quanta Nature. 168: 1060-1064 |
| Cockcroft JD, Lewis WB. (1936) Experiments with high velocity positive ions VI—The disintegration of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen by deuterons Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 154: 261-279 |
| Cockcroft JD, Lewis WB. (1936) Experiments with High Velocity Positive Ions. V. Further Experiments on the Disintegration of Boron Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 154: 246-261 |
| Cockcroft JD, Gilbert CW, Walton ETS. (1935) Experiments with high velocity positive ions IV—the production of induced radioactivity by high velocity protons and diplons Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 148: 225-240 |