Chalk River Laboratories
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Chalk River Laboratories is a Canadian nuclear research facility in Deep River, about 180 km (110 mi) north-west of Ottawa.
Chalk River Laboratories seen from the Ottawa River
NRX and Zeep buildings, Chalk River Laboratories, 1945
John Cockcroft
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
Cockcroft in 1951
House in Walsden in West Yorkshire where John Cockcroft lived from the age of two until he was 28 years old
GL Mk. III radar
A proximity fuze