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Ernest Walton was born on?

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Born on October 6th, Ernest Walton was a distinguished Irish physicist who, alongside John Cockcroft, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951. Renowned for their pioneering work at the Cavendish Laboratory, they successfully split the atom using a particle accelerator, a groundbreaking achievement that revolutionized the field of nuclear physics and paved the way for subsequent advancements in atomic science and technology.
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