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Ernest Walton blue plaque

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Ernest Walton blue plaque
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Ulster History Circle placed the blue plaque on the Methodist College front door to mark Ernest Walton's school years from 1915 to 1922. The young physicist later received a Nobel prize, yet this ordinary door preserved the childhood room where curiosity first caught fire.
This blue commemorative plaque records: Ernest Walton 1903-1995 Physicist and Nobel Laureate at school 1915-1922 Recorded plaque organisation: Ulster History Circle.
Ernest Walton was a physicist who, along with John Cockcroft, conducted the first artificial nuclear disintegration in 1932, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951.

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