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

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, ...

The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and ...

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.

Later, he and his team conducted experiments in Manchester between 1914 and 1919, ... Ernest Walton, Sir Ernest Rutherford and John Cockcroft worked together at Cambridge.

The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland’s Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed by Rutherford.