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Noun: Ernest Walton
  1. Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
    - Walton, E. T. S. Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

Type of: nuclear physicist

Encyclopedia: Ernest Walton