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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1950s (72) 1951 (7) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1903 (12) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) Republic of Ireland (5) Dungarvan (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1990s (82) 1995 (10) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) United Kingdom (86) Belfast (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) E (55) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) W (44) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name E-K (229) E (31) Ernest (4) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Christianity (158) Protestant (78) Methodist (11) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 49 (23) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) Republic of Ireland (6) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) Republic of Ireland (1) Dublin (1) Trinity College (1) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Cambridge (118) University of Cambridge (118) Alumni (69) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards G-H (389) H (196) Hughes Medal (29) complete name: Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton nobel prize: physics award year: 1951 together with: John Cockcroft prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 was awarded jointly to Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Ernest family name: Walton occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher field of work: physics work location: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom description: Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to artificially split the atom. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1951/summary/> date birth: 1903 date death: 1995 usual name: Ernest Walton
