AKA Earnest Thomas Sinton Walton

Born: 6-Oct-1903
Birthplace: Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland
Died: 25-Jun-1995
Location of death: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Ireland
Executive summary: Split the atom

Father: (Methodist minister)
Wife: Freda Wilson (m. 1934, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Alan
Daughter: Marian
Son: Philip
Daughter: Jean

    University: Methodist College, Belfast
    University: Trinity College Dublin (1926)
    University: PhD, Trinity College, Cambridge University
    Professor: Trinity College Dublin (1934-74)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1951 (with John Cockcroft)
    Hughes Medal 1938 (with John Cockcroft)

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