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Ernest T. S. Walton (1903-95) physicist and Nobel laureate

Ernest Walton, a graduate of Trinity College, working with John Cockcroft, in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, under Lord Ernest Rutherford, successfully engineered the disintegration of atoms by artificial means on 14 April 1932. Their success resulted in the award of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1951. An exhibition in the Long Room draws on the papers generously presented to the Library by Walton. It includes the Nobel medal and citation, research notebooks from Walton’s undergraduate career, photographs, correspondence (the letter written to his future wife immediately after splitting the atom), evidence of Walton’s concern about the teaching of science and of his enduring commitment to Methodism.

Contact details: 01 896 2320 OR 01 896 2308

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