Cockcroft

American  

[kok-krawft, -kroft] / ˈkɒk krɔft, -krɒft /

noun

1. Sir John Douglas, 1897–1967, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1951.

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Cockcroft British  

/ ˈkɒkˌkrɒft /

noun

1. Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951

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Cockcroft Scientific  

/ kŏk′krôft′ /

1. British physicist who, with Ernest Walton, was the first to successfully split an atom using a particle accelerator in 1932. For this work they shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

And at the Stade de France, all eyes will be on Hannah Cockcroft, who will be hoping to make it four Paralympic golds in a row in the women’s T34 100m.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2024

Hannah Cockcroft will be hoping to make it four Paralympic golds in a row in the women’s T34 100m at the Stade de France.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2024

When Britain’s chief nuclear scientist, John Cockcroft, insisted that Windscale add some radiation filters during its construction, other officials gave only grudging approval, calling the filters “Cockcroft’s folly.”

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

This time, Cockcroft had written in appreciation of the series of blank pages that Macfarlane had left at the back of the book, in the hope that readers would record linguistic curios.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

Bohr waspishly lectured G. P. Thomson of the Cavendish, who had been stumping for Cockcroft and Walton.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik