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ERNEST WALTON
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• ERNEST WALTON (noun)
The noun ERNEST WALTON has 1 sense:
1. Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
Familiarity information: ERNEST WALTON used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
E. T. S. Walton; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton; Ernest Walton; Walton
Instance hypernyms:
nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)
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