NOUN
- Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
How To Use Ernest Walton In A Sentence
- The two men who actually built the first accelerator were John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, graduate students working in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge under the supervision of Rutherford.
- Our own Ernest Walton split the atom using something remarkably similar, but it all sounds so, well, physical, doesn't it?