John Cockcroft blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: 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. Recorded plaque organisation: Malvern Civic Society.

Sir John Cockcroft was a British physicist who, along with Ernest Walton, conducted pioneering research in nuclear physics, notably for their development of the first linear particle accelerator, which allowed them to artificially split the atom. Their achievement earned them the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics and laid foundational work for modern nuclear physics and technology.