Ernest Walton

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (born on October 6th, 1903, dead on June 25th, 1995) is a physicist Irish, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of physics in 1951.

Biography

Wire of a methodist, Ernest Walton was born on October 6th, 1903 with Dungarvan, in the southernmost county of Waterford, in Ireland. After its studies in a college methodist of Belfast, it starts in 1922 a double course of mathematics and experimental physics to the Trinity College of Dublin, which it successfully completes into 1926/27. It receives then a research grant to work with the Laboratoire Cavendish of the university of Cambridge, then directed by Ernest Rutherford. After its promotion in 1931, it still remains until 1934 in Cambridge before turning over to Trinity College. It is named there in 1946 professor of experimental physics.

Walton Marie in 1934 with Freda Wilson, it also girl of Pasteur methodist; they had two wire (Alan and Philip) and two girls (Marian and Jean). He dies on June 25th, 1995 in Belfast.

Work

Walton worked as of his arrival in Cambridge on the acceleration of the linear atoms using accelerator and of Betatron. With John Cockcroft, it developed the Générateur Cockcroft-Walton, with which they could show that various light elements (in particular Lithium and Bore) could be disintegrated by the impact of fast protons. It was the first time that the Fission controlled atomic nucleus was shown in experiments.

In 1951, Cockcroft and Walton receive the Nobel Prize of physics for their work of avant-garde in the field of the transformations of the atom through the induced acceleration of atomic particles.

Distinctions

Medal Hughes, Royal Society London, 1938
Nobel Prize of physics, 1951

External bonds

Ernest T.S. Walton – Biography Nobel
Annotated bibliography for Ernest Walton from the Alsos DIGITAL Library for Nuclear Exits

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