John Cockcroft

Sir John Cockcroft
; Sir John Cockcroft
Born	27 Mey 1897; Todmorden, Wast Yorkshire, Ingland
Dee'd	18 September 1967 (aged 70); Cambridge, Ingland
Naitionality	Unitit Kinrick
Alma mater	Victoria Varsity o Manchester; Manchester Municipal College o Technology; St. John's College, Cambridge
Kent for	Splittin the atom
Awairds	Hughes Medal (1938); Commander o the Order o the Breetish Empire (1944); Knicht Bachelor (1948); Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1951); Ryal Medal (1954); Faraday Medal (1955); Order o Meerit (1957); Atoms for Peace Awaird (1961); Wilhelm Exner Medal (1961); Knicht Commander o the Order o the Bath (1963); Medal o Freedom wi gowden palms (Unitit States, 1947); Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Fraunce, 1950); Knicht Commander o the Militar Order o Christ (Portugal, 1955); Grand Cross o the Order o Alfonso X (Spain, 1958);
	Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Thesis	On phenomena occurring in the condensation of molecular streams on surfaces (1928)
Academic advisors	Ernest Rutherford

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (27 Mey 1897 – 18 September 1967) wis a Breetish pheesicist wha shared the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1951 for splittin the atomic nucleus wi Ernest Walton, an wis instrumental in the development o nuclear pouer.