John Cockcroft
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of
Cockcroft in 1951
The house in Walsden, Todmorden, where Cockcroft lived from the age of two until he was 28-years-old.
GL Mk. III radar
A proximity fuze
Edward Victor Appleton
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Sir Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar and s
Appleton in 1947
Bushy House in Teddington
Abden House, Edinburgh
Appleton's grave in Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh