Sir
John
Douglas
Cockcroft
OM KCB
Born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Brother of
Eric William Cockcroft, James Philip Cockcroft, Henry Keith Cockcroft and Lionel Fielden Cockcroft
Husband of
Eunice Elizabeth (Crabtree) Cockcroft
— married
1925 [location unknown]
Father of
Timothy Cockcroft
Died in Churchill College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Biography
John Cockcroft OM KCB is Notable.
- Physicist
- 1951 - Nobel Prize in Physics
Mentored by Ernest Rutherford
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
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.
- Family records
Sources
See also:
- John Cockcroft Wikipedia page.
- Nobel Laureates
- Wikidata: Item Q62897, en:Wikipedia
Burial
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (find-a-grave)
Together with his Wife and child.
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Michael Rhodes
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