ERNEST WALTON

(Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton)


Ernest Walton
Ernest Walton
  • Born: October 6, 1903
  • Died: June 25, 1995
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Physicist

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Anglo-Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to split the atom.