Belgian cosmologist and former collaborator of Professor Stephen Hawking | Prize of the Flemish Scientific Foundation (2015) | University of Cambridge
John Cockcroft
- Todmorden: May 27, 1897 celebration
- Churchill College: September 18, 1967 celebration


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celebration Date of birth
Todmorden: May 27, 1897 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Churchill College: September 18, 1967 -
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- physics
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school Education
- St John's College
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- Victoria University of Manchester
- Richard Huish College, Taunton
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trophy Awards & Honors
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Atoms for Peace Award
- Knight of the Legion of Honour (1952)
- Order of Merit (1957)
- Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1958)
- Faraday Medal (1955)
- Royal Medal (1954)
- Hughes Medal (1938)
- Wilhelm Exner Medal (1961)
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
- Maxwell Lecture
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1951)
- James Alfred Ewing Medal
- Knight Bachelor (1947)
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1953)
- IET Kelvin Lecture
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1944)
- Rutherford Medal and Prize (1944)
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- British physicist (1897–1967) | Fellow of the Royal Society, Atoms for Peace Award, Knight of the Legion of Honour (1952), Order of Merit (1957), Niels Bohr