Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995), commonly abbreviated as E. T. S Walton, was an Irish experimental physicist and academic. He 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 speech: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control." Walton was a key member of the nucl