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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
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n
British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)
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Sir John Cockcroft
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nuclear physicist
a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics
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