Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
1903-1995Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist born on October 6, 1903 in Abbeyside, County Waterford, Ireland.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist born on October 6, 1903 in Abbeyside, County Waterford, Ireland.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist born on October 6, 1903 in Abbeyside, County Waterford, Ireland.
He is known for being the first person to artificially split an atom using the technique of particle acceleration.
In 1951, along with John Cockcroft, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering contribution to nuclear fission.
Walton passed away on June 25, 1995 in Belfast, Northern Ireland..