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          Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in for splitting the atomic nucleus.

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          Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 (jointly with Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton)

          "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"

          Born in Todmorden, Lancashire, John Cockcroft served as a Signaller in the Royal Artillery from 1915-18, interposing stints studying Mathematics at the University of Manchester (1914-15), and Electrical Engineering at the Manchester College of Technology (1919-20).

          After receiving his BSc, he spent two years as an apprentice with Metropolitan-Vickers before joining St John’s in 1922 to read Mathematics - a first class BA in 1924 preceding a PhD in 1928.

          Following the conferral of his doctorate, Cockcroft would remain in Cambridge until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, as a Fellow of St John’s and as the College’s Junior Bursar from 1933-39.

          Meanwhile, he moved through the ranks in the University as Demonstrator in Physics from 1929-35, then Lecturer from 1935-39 before being appointed Jack