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John Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. He was the first Master of Churchill College and is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, together with his wife Elizabeth and son John, known as Timothy, who had died at the age of two in 1929.
Early years
Cockcroft was born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, the eldest son of a mill owner. He was educated at Todmorden Secondary School (1909–1914) (where his physics teacher, Luke Sutcliffe, would later tutor another future Nobel Prize-winner, Geoffrey Wilkinson) and studied mathematics at the Victoria University of Manchester (1914–1915). He was a signaller in the Royal Artillery from 1915 to 1918. After the war ended, he studied electrotechnical engineering at UMIST from 1919 until 1920. He undertook an apprenticeship with Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company whilst in receipt of an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. He then went to St. John's College, Cambridge, from where he received a mathematics degree in 1924, and began research work under Ernest Rutherford. In 1929 he was elected a Fellow of St. John's College; in 1939, he became Jacksonian Professor of Philosophy.
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John Cockcroft (politician)
John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 6 July 1934) is a British Conservative politician.
Cockcroft served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army from 1953 to 1955. He worked as a journalist from 1959 to 1974, and again 1981 through 1986, writing for the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, and Sunday Telegraph. He was Member of Parliament for Nantwich in Cheshire from February 1974 until 1979. He has served on numerous boards and commissions.
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How India Got the Bomb
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The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Dorothy Byrne: Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician
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The Physics Experiment That Ruined Australia
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Association Weekend 23 September 2017 Part 2
On Saturday 23 September, as part of our Association Weekend commemoration of the life of our Founding Master, Sir John Cockcroft, on the 50th anniversary of death, the Wolfson Hall played host to a panel discussion on the life and work of the atomic scientist who changed the world. The event comprised two parts: the first exploring Sir John’s work and scientific legacy; the second a personal portrait of the man chosen to be Churchill’s first Master. Speaking in the first half were Professor Rolf Heuer (formerly Director General of CERN) and Dame Sue Ion (Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board); whilst giving an intimate portrait of Sir John in the second half was Graham Farmelo (Churchill Fellow, biographer and science writer), Sir John's son, Christopher Cockcroft, as well as Churchi...
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The Cockroft Rutherford Lecture: Dorothy Byrne - Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician
In Britain and across much of the western world, many voters are saying that politicians have failed them. How can faith and trust in democracy be restored? And could it be that journalists, condemned by some politicians as purveyors of fake news, are key players in finding the solutions? Alumna Dorothy Byrne (BA Philosophy 1973), Head of News & Current Affairs at Channel 4, delivers this year's Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture.
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People In The News - Generals Atomic Conference (1953)
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Sir Anthony Eden Visits Harwell Atomic Station (1955)
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John Cockcroft | Wikipedia audio article
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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
John Cockcroft
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language on...
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John Cockcroft
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
After service on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War, Cockcroft studied electrical engineering at Manchester Municipal College of Technology. He then won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he sat the tripos exam in June 1924, becoming a wrangler. Ernest Rutherford accepted Cockcroft as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory, and Cockcroft completed his doctorate under Rutherford's supervision in 1928. With Ernest Walton and Mark Oliphant he built what became known as a Cockcroft–Walton accelerator. Cockcroft and Walton used this to perform the first artificial disintegration of an atomic nucleus, a feat popularly known as splitting the atom.
During the Second World War Cockcroft became Assistant Director of Scientific Research in the Ministry of Supply, working on radar. He was also a member of the committee formed to handle issues arising from the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which calculated that an atomic bomb could be technically feasible, and of the MAUD Committee which succeeded it. In 1940, as part of the Tizard Mission, he shared British technology with his counterparts in the United States. Later in the war, the fruits of the Tizard Mission came back to Britain in the form of the SCR-584 radar set and the proximity fuze, which were used to defeat the V-1 flying bomb. In May 1944, he became director of the Montreal Laboratory, and oversaw the development of the ZEEP and NRX reactors, and the creation of the Chalk River Laboratories.
After the war Cockcroft became the director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell, where the low-powered, graphite-moderated GLEEP became the first nuclear reactor to operate in western Europe when it was started on 15 August 1947. This was followed by BEPO in 1948. Harwell was involved in the design of the reactors and the chemical separation plant at Windscale. Under his direction it took part in frontier fusion research, including the ZETA program. His insistence that the chimney stacks of the Windscale reactors be fitted with filters was mocked as Cockcroft's Folly until the core of one of the reactors ignited and released radionuclides during the Windscale fire of 1957.
From 1959 to 1967, he was the first Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. He was also chancellor of the Australian National University in Canberra from 1961 to 1965.
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John Cockcroft
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
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You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
After service on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War, Cockcroft studied electrical engineering at Manchester Municipal College of Technology. He then won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he sat the tripos exam in June 1924, becoming a wrangler. Ernest Rutherford accepted Cockcroft as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory, and Cockcroft completed his doctorate under Rutherford's supervision in 1928. With Ernest Walton and Mark Oliphant he built what became known as a Cockcroft–Walton accelerator. Cockcroft and Walton used this to perform the first artificial disintegration of an atomic nucleus, a feat popularly known as splitting the atom.
During the Second World War Cockcroft became Assistant Director of Scientific Research in the Ministry of Supply, working on radar. He was also a member of the committee formed to handle issues arising from the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which calculated that an atomic bomb could be technically feasible, and of the MAUD Committee which succeeded it. In 1940, as part of the Tizard Mission, he shared British technology with his counterparts in the United States. Later in the war, the fruits of the Tizard Mission came back to Britain in the form of the SCR-584 radar set and the proximity fuze, which were used to defeat the V-1 flying bomb. In May 1944, he became director of the Montreal Laboratory, and oversaw the development of the ZEEP and NRX reactors, and the creation of the Chalk River Laboratories.
After the war Cockcroft became the director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell, where the low-powered, graphite-moderated GLEEP became the first nuclear reactor to operate in western Europe when it was started on 15 August 1947. This was followed by BEPO in 1948. Harwell was involved in the design of the reactors and the chemical separation plant at Windscale. Under his direction it took part in frontier fusion research, including the ZETA program. His insistence that the chimney stacks of the Windscale reactors be fitted with filters was mocked as Cockcroft's Folly until the core of one of the reactors ignited and released radionuclides during the Windscale fire of 1957.
From 1959 to 1967, he was the first Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. He was also chancellor of the Australian National University in Canberra from 1961 to 1965.
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How India Got the Bomb
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The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Dorothy Byrne: Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician
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The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture 2012: Professor Brian Cox
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A scientist in the media
A scientist in the media
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A scientist in the media
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The Physics Experiment That Ruined Australia
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Association Weekend 23 September 2017 Part 2
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On Saturday 23 September, as part of our Association Weekend commemoration of the life of our Founding Master, Sir John Cockcroft, on the 50th anniversary of de...
On Saturday 23 September, as part of our Association Weekend commemoration of the life of our Founding Master, Sir John Cockcroft, on the 50th anniversary of death, the Wolfson Hall played host to a panel discussion on the life and work of the atomic scientist who changed the world. The event comprised two parts: the first exploring Sir John’s work and scientific legacy; the second a personal portrait of the man chosen to be Churchill’s first Master. Speaking in the first half were Professor Rolf Heuer (formerly Director General of CERN) and Dame Sue Ion (Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board); whilst giving an intimate portrait of Sir John in the second half was Graham Farmelo (Churchill Fellow, biographer and science writer), Sir John's son, Christopher Cockcroft, as well as Churchill alumnus and Sir John’s biographer, Michael Smyth.
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On Saturday 23 September, as part of our Association Weekend commemoration of the life of our Founding Master, Sir John Cockcroft, on the 50th anniversary of death, the Wolfson Hall played host to a panel discussion on the life and work of the atomic scientist who changed the world. The event comprised two parts: the first exploring Sir John’s work and scientific legacy; the second a personal portrait of the man chosen to be Churchill’s first Master. Speaking in the first half were Professor Rolf Heuer (formerly Director General of CERN) and Dame Sue Ion (Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board); whilst giving an intimate portrait of Sir John in the second half was Graham Farmelo (Churchill Fellow, biographer and science writer), Sir John's son, Christopher Cockcroft, as well as Churchill alumnus and Sir John’s biographer, Michael Smyth.
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The Cockroft Rutherford Lecture: Dorothy Byrne - Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician
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In Britain and across much of the western world, many voters are saying that politicians have failed them. How can faith and trust in democracy be restored? And...
In Britain and across much of the western world, many voters are saying that politicians have failed them. How can faith and trust in democracy be restored? And could it be that journalists, condemned by some politicians as purveyors of fake news, are key players in finding the solutions?
Alumna Dorothy Byrne (BA Philosophy 1973), Head of News & Current Affairs at Channel 4, delivers this year's Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture.
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In Britain and across much of the western world, many voters are saying that politicians have failed them. How can faith and trust in democracy be restored? And could it be that journalists, condemned by some politicians as purveyors of fake news, are key players in finding the solutions?
Alumna Dorothy Byrne (BA Philosophy 1973), Head of News & Current Affairs at Channel 4, delivers this year's Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture.
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People In The News - Generals Atomic Conference (1953)
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Staff College Camberley, England.
GV. Officers leaving Staff College (1st 7 ft. for super title). SV. Officers leaving College after exercise to study the u...
Staff College Camberley, England.
GV. Officers leaving Staff College (1st 7 ft. for super title). SV. Officers leaving College after exercise to study the use of atomic weapons in modern warfare code named "for'ard on". SV. Field Marshal Montgomery (Monty) and General Gruenther (NATO Commander). SV. Pressmen. SV. Group. CU. Gen. Rajendra Sinhji and Sir John Cockcroft, track into Field Marshal Earl Alexander and General Gruenther supreme allied commander in Europe. CU. Alexander and Gruenther. SV. Gruenther, Anthony Head, Secretary of State for War. C.I.G.S. Field-Marshal Sir John Harding, Lt. Gen. Simmonds, C.G.S. Canada, Viscount Bernard Montgomery C in C, Western Union Land Forces, and Gen. Mohd. Ayub Khan C in C, Pakistan Army. SV. Photographer. GV. Group posing for camera. SV. Members of group. GV. Group.
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Staff College Camberley, England.
GV. Officers leaving Staff College (1st 7 ft. for super title). SV. Officers leaving College after exercise to study the use of atomic weapons in modern warfare code named "for'ard on". SV. Field Marshal Montgomery (Monty) and General Gruenther (NATO Commander). SV. Pressmen. SV. Group. CU. Gen. Rajendra Sinhji and Sir John Cockcroft, track into Field Marshal Earl Alexander and General Gruenther supreme allied commander in Europe. CU. Alexander and Gruenther. SV. Gruenther, Anthony Head, Secretary of State for War. C.I.G.S. Field-Marshal Sir John Harding, Lt. Gen. Simmonds, C.G.S. Canada, Viscount Bernard Montgomery C in C, Western Union Land Forces, and Gen. Mohd. Ayub Khan C in C, Pakistan Army. SV. Photographer. GV. Group posing for camera. SV. Members of group. GV. Group.
(Orig.Neg.) (Title scene "D")
Press cuttings and letters from the War Office are amongst the paperwork for this item. Also a seating plan for the group photograph.
FILM ID:112.19
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Sir Anthony Eden Visits Harwell Atomic Station (1955)
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Harwell.
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Sir Anthony Eden arrives by car through gates at Harwell. Being received by Sir John Cockcroft Director of Harwell Atomi...
Harwell.
Documentation on file.
Sir Anthony Eden arrives by car through gates at Harwell. Being received by Sir John Cockcroft Director of Harwell Atomic power station and Sir Edwin Plowden. Leaves by car with Cockcroft and Plowden, for start of visit to Harwell. Prime Minister visits Cockcroft Hall, the students lecture hall, and chats to students from various countries. Car driving away. Prime Minister arrives to see heavy water reactor and model, with Sir John Cockcroft and Sir Edwin Plowden. Prime Minister walking out of reactor. Prime Minister drives away.
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Harwell.
Documentation on file.
Sir Anthony Eden arrives by car through gates at Harwell. Being received by Sir John Cockcroft Director of Harwell Atomic power station and Sir Edwin Plowden. Leaves by car with Cockcroft and Plowden, for start of visit to Harwell. Prime Minister visits Cockcroft Hall, the students lecture hall, and chats to students from various countries. Car driving away. Prime Minister arrives to see heavy water reactor and model, with Sir John Cockcroft and Sir Edwin Plowden. Prime Minister walking out of reactor. Prime Minister drives away.
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FILM ID:2698.1
A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/
FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/
British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/
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The World In Focus - Three Years After... Aka The World In Focus: 3 Years After (1948)
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Full title reads: "THE WORLD IN FOCUS - THREE YEARS AFTER..."
SUPER FORTRESSES AT SCAMPTON
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SUPER FORTRESSES AT SCAMPTON
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ITALIAN RIOTS FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING OF COMMUNIST LEADER TOGLIATTI".
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ITALIAN RIOTS FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING OF COMMUNIST LEADER TOGLIATTI".
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
After service on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War, Cockcroft studied electrical engineering at Manchester Municipal College of Technology. He then won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he sat the tripos exam in June 1924, becoming a wrangler. Ernest Rutherford accepted Cockcroft as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory, and Cockcroft completed his doctorate under Rutherford's supervision in 1928. With Ernest Walton and Mark Oliphant he built what became known as a Cockcroft–Walton accelerator. Cockcroft and Walton used this to perform the first artificial disintegration of an atomic nucleus, a feat popularly known as splitting the atom.
During the Second World War Cockcroft became Assistant Director of Scientific Research in the Ministry of Supply, working on radar. He was also a member of the committee formed to handle issues arising from the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which calculated that an atomic bomb could be technically feasible, and of the MAUD Committee which succeeded it. In 1940, as part of the Tizard Mission, he shared British technology with his counterparts in the United States. Later in the war, the fruits of the Tizard Mission came back to Britain in the form of the SCR-584 radar set and the proximity fuze, which were used to defeat the V-1 flying bomb. In May 1944, he became director of the Montreal Laboratory, and oversaw the development of the ZEEP and NRX reactors, and the creation of the Chalk River Laboratories.
After the war Cockcroft became the director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell, where the low-powered, graphite-moderated GLEEP became the first nuclear reactor to operate in western Europe when it was started on 15 August 1947. This was followed by BEPO in 1948. Harwell was involved in the design of the reactors and the chemical separation plant at Windscale. Under his direction it took part in frontier fusion research, including the ZETA program. His insistence that the chimney stacks of the Windscale reactors be fitted with filters was mocked as Cockcroft's Folly until the core of one of the reactors ignited and released radionuclides during the Windscale fire of 1957.
From 1959 to 1967, he was the first Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. He was also chancellor of the Australian National University in Canberra from 1961 to 1965.
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The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Dorothy Byrne: Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician
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On Saturday 23 September, as part of our Association Weekend commemoration of the life of our Founding Master, Sir John Cockcroft, on the 50th anniversary of death, the Wolfson Hall played host to a panel discussion on the life and work of the atomic scientist who changed the world. The event comprised two parts: the first exploring Sir John’s work and scientific legacy; the second a personal portrait of the man chosen to be Churchill’s first Master. Speaking in the first half were Professor Rolf Heuer (formerly Director General of CERN) and Dame Sue Ion (Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board); whilst giving an intimate portrait of Sir John in the second half was Graham Farmelo (Churchill Fellow, biographer and science writer), Sir John's son, Christopher Cockcroft, as well as Churchill alumnus and Sir John’s biographer, Michael Smyth.
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The Cockroft Rutherford Lecture: Dorothy Byrne - Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician
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In Britain and across much of the western world, many voters are saying that politicians have failed them. How can faith and trust in democracy be restored? And could it be that journalists, condemned by some politicians as purveyors of fake news, are key players in finding the solutions?
Alumna Dorothy Byrne (BA Philosophy 1973), Head of News & Current Affairs at Channel 4, delivers this year's Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture.
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People In The News - Generals Atomic Conference (1953)
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Sir Anthony Eden Visits Harwell Atomic Station (1955)
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Sir Anthony Eden arrives by car through gates at Harwell. Being received by Sir John Cockcroft Director of Harwell Atomic power station and Sir Edwin Plowden. Leaves by car with Cockcroft and Plowden, for start of visit to Harwell. Prime Minister visits Cockcroft Hall, the students lecture hall, and chats to students from various countries. Car driving away. Prime Minister arrives to see heavy water reactor and model, with Sir John Cockcroft and Sir Edwin Plowden. Prime Minister walking out of reactor. Prime Minister drives away.
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John Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. He was the first Master of Churchill College and is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, together with his wife Elizabeth and son John, known as Timothy, who had died at the age of two in 1929.
Early years
Cockcroft was born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, the eldest son of a mill owner. He was educated at Todmorden Secondary School (1909–1914) (where his physics teacher, Luke Sutcliffe, would later tutor another future Nobel Prize-winner, Geoffrey Wilkinson) and studied mathematics at the Victoria University of Manchester (1914–1915). He was a signaller in the Royal Artillery from 1915 to 1918. After the war ended, he studied electrotechnical engineering at UMIST from 1919 until 1920. He undertook an apprenticeship with Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company whilst in receipt of an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. He then went to St. John's College, Cambridge, from where he received a mathematics degree in 1924, and began research work under Ernest Rutherford. In 1929 he was elected a Fellow of St. John's College; in 1939, he became Jacksonian Professor of Philosophy.
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