He was a leading advocate of ‘planned science’. John Cockcroft shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton. At Cambridge they had created the first proton accelerator and used it to ...

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

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics ... The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers ...