Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (1903-1995)

Awarded the Prize “for his pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.”

Irish physicist. Walton was born in Dungorvan, County Waterford, Irel on October 6, 1903. He graduated in mathematics experimental science from Trinity College, Dublin in 1926 he received his M.Sc. degree in 1927. In 1931 he gained his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was appointed Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural Experimental Philosophy in 1946, in 1960 he was elected Senior Fellow of Trinity College. He was chairman of the School of Cosmic Physics of the Dublin Institute a member of the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences. Walton died in Belfast on June 25, 1995.