Ernest Walton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest Walton

Irish physicist and Nobel laureate

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1903

Place of Birth: Abbeyside, Munster, Ireland

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1995

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to split the atom.