John Cockcroft

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (27 Mey 1897 – 18 September 1967) wis a Breetish pheesicist wha shared the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1951 for splittin the atomic nucleus wi Ernest Walton, an wis instrumental in the development o nuclear pouer.

Sir John Cockcroft
Born	27 Mey 1897(1897-05-27) Todmorden, Wast Yorkshire, Ingland
Dee'd	18 September 1967(1967-09-18) (aged 70) Cambridge, Ingland
Naitionality	Unitit Kinrick
Alma mater	Victoria Varsity o Manchester Manchester Municipal College o Technology St. John's College, Cambridge
Kent for	Splittin the atom
Awairds	Hughes Medal (1938) Commander o the Order o the Breetish Empire (1944) Knicht Bachelor (1948) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1951) Ryal Medal (1954) Faraday Medal (1955) Order o Meerit (1957) Atoms for Peace Awaird (1961) Wilhelm Exner Medal (1961) Knicht Commander o the Order o the Bath (1963) Medal o Freedom wi gowden palms (Unitit States, 1947) Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Fraunce, 1950) Knicht Commander o the Militar Order o Christ (Portugal, 1955) Grand Cross o the Order o Alfonso X (Spain, 1958)
Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Thesis	On phenomena occurring in the condensation of molecular streams on surfaces (1928)
Academic advisors	Ernest Rutherford