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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951

"for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
United Kingdom Ireland
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Harwell, Berkshire, United Kingdom		 Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
b. 1897
d. 1967		 b. 1903
d. 1995
 
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