Ernest+Walton

=Ernest Walton- Joseph Westerhoff= Ernest Walton is an Irish Physicist born October 6, 1903, and died June 25, 1995, he was best known for the development of the first nuclear particle accelerator.

In 1929 Cockcroft waltons partner and Walton devised an accelerator that generated large numbers of particles at lower energies. With this device in 1932 they disintegrated lithium nuclei with protons, the first artificial nuclear reaction not utilizing radioactive substances. The device was such a huge discovery that Walton was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in physics.

Ernest Walton was yet another exceptionalist produced from Ireland showing just how smart and advancing the Irish have become.