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John Cockcroft
| English physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics Date of Birth: 27.05.1897 Country: Great Britain |
Content:
- Biography of John Cockcroft
- Early Career and Contributions
- Director of the Cavendish Laboratory
- Later Career and Achievements
- Personal Life and Honors
Biography of John Cockcroft
John Douglas Cockcroft, an English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, was born in Todmorden, Yorkshire.
He was the eldest of five sons of John Arthur Cockcroft and Mod (Fielden) Cockcroft.
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His father owned a small cotton spinning mill, and three of his brothers followed in his footsteps, as their family had been in the business for five generations. However, John, a brilliant student and athlete, received a scholarship to study at the University of Manchester in 1914.
In Manchester, Cockcroft began studying mathematics and attending lectures by physicist Ernest Rutherford.
Early Career and Contributions
Rutherford, renowned for his work on radioact