Ernest Walton

But a grand total of 29 Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work done in this unassuming building, perhaps the best known being to Sir John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton for the development of the first nuclear particle accelerator (which allowed them to be the first to split the atom without using radioactive material), in 1932.

Flaws of Gravity Hitchens, Christopher 2008

The two men who actually built the first accelerator were John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, graduate students working in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge under the supervision of Rutherford.

Seeing the Unseen Dyson, Freeman 2005

It was there that in 1932 his colleagues James Cockcroft and Ernest Walton "split the atom" using the world's first particle accelerator.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

There are many left off the list I'd have loved to seen nominated Dr Kathleen Lynn, former FF TD who founded a children's hospital in the 1930's, Countess Markievicz first woman to be elected to Westminster, Ernest Walton, Nobel prize winner, WB Yeats ditto, Grace O'Malley or Nano Nagle surely should be there?

Irish Blogs Cllr Joe Ryan's Blog 2010

The early particle accelerator was invented by John D. Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who worked in Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England.

CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

Ireland's only Nobel Prize in science belongs to Ernest Walton, who won the prize in 1951.

Ireland Travel Guide 2008

It was started by John D. Cockcroft and Ernest Walton.

CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009