May 27.1897-British physicist John Cork Lavrov birth
May 27, 1897 (, Ding April 26), the British physicist John Cork Lavrov was born.
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British physicist John - Cork fiercely independent in 1932, the first artificial nucleus splits.
Cockcroft, born on May 27, 1897 British 格兰托德莫 Gordon. learning mathematics into the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom in 1914, but the second year of military service.
after World War I, he entered the the Metropolitan Vickers engineering company as an apprentice, the company sent him to Manchester Polytechnic to study electrical engineering. later to enter the University of Cambridge, graduating Department of Mathematics, (lsjt.org) and became the the Cavendish Laboratory Ernest - Rutherford team members.
soon Cockcroft started to design a device to accelerate protons interest, with Walton, he built a high-pressure device. they use this device to accelerate protons to bombard lithium nuclei, and in 1932, the first artificial nucleus splits.
because it a work of Cockcroft and Walton shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics. (history today. com)
during World War II, Cockcroft radar development played a leading role in the work
in 1940, he visited the United States, consultations exchange for military, scientific and IT
1944, he became the leaders of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Commission of Canada.
He returned to England in 1946, became the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell new director, he served as Dean of Churchill College, Cambridge in 1959, this is a new institute specializing in the study of science and technology in 1948, Keke Luo Swift was knighted in 1967, he died in Cambridge, UK.
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