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- The Institute is named after the Nobel prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft FRS.
- Sir John Cockcroft was an early director of CRL and also a medical radioisotopes.
- The papers of Sir John Cockcroft are held at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, and are accessible to the public.
- No 31 was the home of Nobel Prize-winning physicists Sir John Cockcroft . No 12 ( Tretherbyn ) was home to explorer and archaeologist Tom Lethbridge.
- The electronics division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, UK built the AERE's computing needs, and AERE director Sir John Cockcroft encouraged them to design and build a computer using transistors throughout.
- On 10 October 1957, the Windscale Piles were shut down following a fire in Pile 1 during a routine maintenance check, which destroyed the core and released an estimated 750 Sir John Cockcroft 95 % of the material was captured.
- Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir John Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber Roy Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson.
- Sir John Cockcroft, leading the project team, was alarmed enough to order that filters be installed, which required them to be constructed on the ground while the chimneys were still being built, and then winched into position at the top once the chimney's concrete had set.
- But despite his lack of public recognition in Australia, peers and historians have long recognised the abiding impact Bruce had both as prime minister and internationalist, leading his successor as Chancellor of the Australian National University Sir John Cockcroft to conclude in 1962 that Bruce was " probably the outstanding Australian of our time ".
- Although Sir John Cockcroft had advised the government that electricity generated by nuclear power would be more expensive than that from coal, the government decided that nuclear power stations as alternatives to coal-fired power stations would be useful to reduce the bargaining power of the coal miners'unions, and so decided to go ahead.
- "' Nobel Prize winners "': Sir Appleton layer, Sir John Cockcroft KCB, physicist who first split the atom, Allan Cormack, for the invention of the CAT scan, Paul Dirac, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, for work on the behaviour of electrons in magnetic solids, Abdus Salam, for unifying the electromagnetic force and the weak force, Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist, Maurice Wilkins, awarded Nobel prize for Medicine or Physiology with Watson and Crick for discovering the structure of DNA, and Eric Maskin ( visiting & honorary fellow ), awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2007.