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  1. 1903- . Irish physicist who, as a young
  2. doctoral student at the Cavendish laboratory
  3. in Cambridge, England, collaborated with John
  4. Cockcroft on investigating the structure of
  5. the atom. In 1932 they succeeded in splitting
  6. the atom; for this experiment they shared the
  7. 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics.
  8.