Cockcroft

American  

[kok-krawft, -kroft] / ˈkɒk krɔft, -krɒft /

noun

1. Sir John Douglas, 1897–1967, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1951.

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Cockcroft British  

/ ˈkɒkˌkrɒft /

noun

1. Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951

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Cockcroft Scientific  

/ kŏk′krôft′ /

1. British physicist who, with Ernest Walton, was the first to successfully split an atom using a particle accelerator in 1932. For this work they shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

Hannah Cockcroft will be hoping to make it four Paralympic golds in a row in the women’s T34 100m at the Stade de France.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2024

And at the Stade de France, all eyes will be on Hannah Cockcroft, who will be hoping to make it four Paralympic golds in a row in the women’s T34 100m.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2024

When Britain’s chief nuclear scientist, John Cockcroft, insisted that Windscale add some radiation filters during its construction, other officials gave only grudging approval, calling the filters “Cockcroft’s folly.”

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

“I intend to rally my memory and write in these pages you provide a small word-hoard of my own,” Cockcroft wrote.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

But Cockcroft was a thoughtful physicist in the style treasured by Rutherford, especially in his resourcefulness with equipment, the Cavendish’s hallmark.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik