John Douglas Cockcroft (1897 - 1967)
Sir
John
Douglas
Cockcroft
Born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died in Churchill College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Biography
- Physicist
- 1951 - Nobel Prize in Physics
Mentored by Ernest Rutherford
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See also:
- John Cockcroft Wikipedia page.
- Nobel Laureates
- WikiData: Q62897 Wikidata Information Reasonator enwiki Ancestors (about wikidata)
Research Notes
The eldest son of a mill owner, John Arthur Cockcroft, and his wife Annie Maude née Fielden. He had four younger brothers; Eric, Philip, Keith and Lionel.
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