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Ernest Walton
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<p>Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish <a href="/facts/Nuclear_physicist/fzQbt1aF">nuclear physicist</a> who shared the 1951 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> with <a href="/facts/John_Cockcroft/Is5qGyKV">John Cockcroft</a> "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of <a href="/facts/Atomic_nuclei/orpIm5Xl">atomic nuclei</a> by artificially accelerated <a href="/facts/Atomic_particle/tMEzcTWQ">atomic particles</a>". According to their Nobel Prize citation: "Thus, for the first time, a <a href="/facts/Nuclear_transmutation/MjlvjsV6">nuclear transmutation</a> was produced by means entirely under human control". </p>