Ernest Walton

Ernest Walton MRIA
Walton in 1951
Born	Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (1903-10-06)6 October 1903 Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland
Died	25 June 1995(1995-06-25) (aged 91) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Resting place	Dean's Grange Cemetery, Deansgrange
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin (bachelor's degree, 1926; master's degree, 1927) University of Cambridge Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD, 1931)
Known for	Performing the first fully artificial nuclear reaction and nuclear transmutation (1932)
Spouse	Winifred Wilson ​ (m. 1934)​
Children	4
Awards	MRIA (1935) Hughes Medal (1938) Nobel Prize in Physics (1951)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Nuclear physics
Institutions	University of Cambridge (1931–1934) Trinity College Dublin (1934–1974)
Doctoral advisor	Ernest Rutherford
18th Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
In office 1946–1974
Preceded by	Robert Ditchburn
Succeeded by	Brian Henderson
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles". According to their Nobel Prize citation: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control".^[1]