A Portrait of Professor John Cockroft (Sir John Douglas Cockcroft 1897-1967) in the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge where the first splitting of the atom experiments took place under direction of Professor Rutherford. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 with Ernest Walton for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

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