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Ernest Walton

1903 - 1995

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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish nuclear physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles". According to their Nobel Prize citation: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control". He was also the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin from 1946 to 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Walton is the 290th most popular physicist (down from 278th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 39th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Physicist.

Ernest Walton is most famous for splitting the atom and being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernest Walton ranks 290 out of 851Before him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Antoine César Becquerel, Ash Carter, Syukuro Manabe, Joseph Plateau, and Charles Wheatstone. After him are Lawrence M. Krauss, John Clauser, Anne L'Huillier, Harry Daghlian, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and Zhores Alferov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Ernest Walton ranks 57Before him are Bruno Bettelheim, Andrei Grechko, Claudio Arrau, Kenneth Clark, Georg Elser, and George Davis Snell. After him are Alonzo Church, Yisrael Kristal, Raymond Radiguet, Empress Kōjun, Uichiro Hatta, and Vincente Minnelli. Among people deceased in 1995, Ernest Walton ranks 47Before him are Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Lita Grey, Jonas Salk, Louis Malle, Pierre Schaeffer, and Aziz Nesin. After him are Don Cherry, Alonzo Church, Miklós Rózsa, Ștefan Kovács, Ko Takamoro, and César Rodríguez Álvarez.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Ernest Walton ranks 54 out of 549Before him are Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Gabriel Byrne (1950), Michael Collins (1890), Brendan Gleeson (1955), Brian Cowen (1960), and John Flanagan (1873). After him are Turlough O'Carolan (1670), Columba (521), John Toland (1670), Terry Wogan (1938), Conor McGregor (1988), and Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865).

Among PHYSICISTS In Ireland

Among physicists born in Ireland, Ernest Walton ranks 3Before him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), and George Francis FitzGerald (1851). After him are John Tyndall (1820), George Johnstone Stoney (1826), John Sealy Townsend (1868), and John Joly (1857).