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ERNEST WALTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
Synonyms:
E. T. S. Walton; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton; Ernest Walton; Walton
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Instance hypernyms:
nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)