Ernest Walton
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artifici
Walton in 1951
Walton's grave in Dean's Grange Cemetery, south County Dublin.
Dungarvan
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Dungarvan is a coastal town and harbour in County Waterford, on the south-east coast of Ireland. Prior to the merger of Waterford County Council with Waterford City Council in 2014, Dungarvan was the
Ernest Walton
…William Rowan Hamilton, Walton is regarded as one of the most influential Irish physicists. Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was born on 6 October 1903 in Dungarvan, Ireland, the son of John Walton (1874–1936), a Methodist minister from Cloughjordan, and Anna Sinton (1874–1906) from Richhill. In those days, a general…
Dungarvan's harbour
Dungarvan Castle dates to at least the early 13th century
Food riot in Dungarvan during the Great Famine. (The Pictorial Times, 1846)
Devonshire Bridge