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n. - British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967).

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  • That's not enough to catch Cockcroft, so I'll need help.
  • The next day, Cockcroft was occupied with other business.
  • Cockcroft and Walton then simply assert that a mass 0.0154 amu
  • Cockcroft showed me around Harwell when I visited there in the 1950s.
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