Sir John Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS
(1897-1967)
administrator, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Fellow of the Royal Society, first man to split the atom by artificial means, scientist, pioneer in the development of peaceful uses of nuclear power, Chief Superintendent of ADRDE, Nobel Physics Laureate (from 1951), and Order of Merit recipient (from 1957)
Commemorated on 2 plaques
In the 1940s Chief Superintendent of ADRDE Sir John Cockcroft CBE OM KCB lived and held meetings here. With Ernest Walton he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on particle accelerators.
Green Bank House, Bank Street, Malvern, United Kingdom where they was
Sir John Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS 1887-1967 scientist, administrator, pioneer in the development of peaceful uses of nuclear power. In 1932, with Dr E. T. S. Walton, he was the first man to split the atom by artificial means. Joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951. Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Todmorden
Birks Lane, Walsden, United Kingdom where they lived