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Thu 04 Apr 2003Making his name with a bang
Monday is the 71st anniversary of the first experiment to split the atom, a feat accomplished by Ireland's sole Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Bill Davis reports.
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Ireland's only winner of a Nobel Prize for science, the physicist Ernest Walton. He shared the 1951 physics award with John Cockcroft, with whom he was the first person to split the atom. The two accomplished the feat while conducting research at the famous Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, 71 years ago next Monday.
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