Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sir_john_cockcroft

1 sense of sir john cockcroft

Sense 1
Cockcroft, Sir John Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft -- (British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967))
       INSTANCE OF=> nuclear physicist -- (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)