ERNEST THOMAS SINTON WALTON

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 I. (noun) 

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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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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

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