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Irish Methodists: Irish Salvationists, Methodists From Northern Ireland, Ernest Walton, John Edward Robinson, Robert Strawbridge, Gordon Wilson |
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English |
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Paperback |
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30 |
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2010-06-10 |
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1157857868 |
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Books LLC |
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0.13 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.04 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Irish Salvationists, Methodists From Northern Ireland, Ernest Walton, John Edward Robinson, Robert Strawbridge, Gordon Wilson, David Catherwood, T. A. Denny, Mary Uprichard, Gideon Ouseley, John Matear. Excerpt: Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s. Walton is the only Irishman to have won a Nobel Prize in science. Ernest Walton was born in Abbeyside, Co. Waterford, Ireland, to a Methodist minister father, Rev. John Walton (18741936) and Anna Sinton (18741906). In those days a general clergyman's family moved once every three years, and this practice carried Ernest and his family, while he was a small child, to Counties Limerick and Monaghan. He attended day schools in counties Down, Tyrone, and Wesley College Dublin before becoming a boarder at Methodist College Belfast in 1915, where he excelled in science and mathematics. In 1922 Walton won scholarships to Trinity College, Dublin for the study of mathematics and science. He was awarded bachelor's and master's degrees from Trinity in 1926 and 1927, respectively. During these years at college, Walton received numerous prizes for excellence in physics and mathematics (seven prizes in all). Following graduation he was accepted as a research student at Trinity College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Sir Ernest Rutherford, Director of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. At the time there were four Nobel Prize laureates on the staff at the Cavendish lab and a further five were to emerge, including Walton and John Cockcroft. Walton was awarded his Ph.D. in 1931 and remained at Cambridge as a researcher until 1... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=362499
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