earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1932, British and Irish scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under Rutherford's leadership, successfully split the atom at at the ...

New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father ... scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory ...

Dr Cliff said under his leadership in 1932, students John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton built one of the world's first particle accelerators, a powerful machine that "literally cleaved the atom in ...