John Cockroft plaque

The public map records this plaque for John Cockroft. Its recorded inscription reads: Sir John Cockroft OM KCB CBE FRS 1897-1967 Lived here from 1899 to 1925 Scientist, administrator, pioneer in the development of the peaceful uses of nuclear power. In 1932, with Dr E. T. S. Walton, he was the first man to split the atom by artificial m...

Sir John Cockroft was a pioneering physicist who, along with Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, conducted the first artificial splitting of the atom in 1932, a foundational achievement in nuclear physics that contributed significantly to the development of peaceful nuclear applications.