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The public map records this plaque for John Cockroft. Its recorded inscription reads: Sir John D Cockcroft 1897-1967 OM KCB CBE FRS, 1952 Nobel prize winner for physics, atom splitter, scientific adviser and first master of Churchill College, Cambridge, was born in this house 27th May 1897 and lived here with his parents, cotton manufac...

Sir John D. Cockcroft was a pioneering physicist who, alongside Ernest Walton, won the 1952 Nobel Prize for physics for their pioneering work on splitting the atom by artificial means, thus contributing significantly to the development of nuclear physics and technology.

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