Walton earned his Nobel Prize alongside which other scientist?
Marie Curie
Erwin Schrödinger
Sigmund Freud
John Cockcroft
Answer
John Cockcroft, alongside Walton, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for their groundbreaking work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerating charged particles. Their invention, the Cockcroft-Walton particle accelerator, was a crucial step in unlocking the secrets of nuclear physics and laid the foundation for future particle accelerators that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
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