Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903 Physicist Ernest Walton, who was 'smashing atoms' 20 years before the Manhattan Project, was born in County ...

Nobel prize-winning scientist Sir John Cockcroft, who split the atom in 1932, is buried there. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 with Ernest Walton for splitting the atomic nucleus.

In 1932, Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton used this basic circuit to power a particle accelerator, the first “atom smasher,” and eventually helped earn them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951. For ...

Ernest Walton Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft and their "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s.

Walton couldn't say much in reply: Mary Hemingway was right next to him in his Georgetown home when the call came. According to author Joseph A. Esposito - whose "Dinner in Camelot" is a ...

The cyclotron and its immense potential provided the basis for Ernest O. Lawrence's 1939 Nobel Prize win in physics. His team was a little excited. The cyclotron also provided the basis for a number ...

This was the first ever experiment to split the atom. In 1951 Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. An RTÉ News report broadcast on 18 September 1967.

The accompanying photo left to right shows Dr Ernest Walton (1903 - 1995), Lord Rutherford (1871 - 1937), Nobel prizewinner for chemistry (1908) and Dr John Cockcroft (1897 -1967).

The other is Ernest T Walton, who in 1951 shared the Nobel Prize in physics for his role in “splitting the atom”. Campbell was born in Derry and brought up in Ramelton, Co Donegal.

This week William C Campbell won the Nobel Prize in Medicine – only the second Irish scientist to win a Nobel Prize, after Ernest Walton in 1951. The Donegal man – he is from Ramelton – was ...