Dr Cliff said under his leadership in 1932, students John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton built one of the world's first particle ...

Board of education member Sarah Walton said she will not seek re-election when her three-year term ends next year. Walton, who is married with a six-year-old son, said Thursday that she wants to de… ...

Later, he and his team conducted experiments in Manchester between 1914 and 1919, ... students John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton built one of the world's first particle accelerators, ...

British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left, and Dr. F.D. Cockroft, right, stand with Lord Rutherford outside the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, May 2, 1932.

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...

Irish physicist Ernest Walton was born in Co Waterford on October 6, 1903. He went on to become the first "atom smasher," 20 years before the Manhattan Project.