Talk:Ernest Walton

Recent additions

Today I did some rewording to the article and added a few references for additional reading. Some in-text citations would be good. Also, I tried to reduce the banner sizes above. - Just passing through. Happy editing. - Astrochemist (talk) 16:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

E.T.S. Walton

At school and in college, his name was always E.T.S. Walton in the books we used. Perhaps there should be a redirect page from E.T.S. Walton? KMcD (talk) 14:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

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Some fixes

I added citations to the section on Walton's family life. The two sources I found said that Walton had 4 children and was born on October 6, so I changed those details in the article. Theodore Ehrenborg (talk) 16:32, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Questionable lede.

"for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to split the atom." Since Cockroft and Walton worked together to split the atom, it seems unreasonable to state that Walton was THE first person in history to split the atom.77Mike77 (talk) 18:16, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

That's a good point. However, this article claims that Walton was working alone in the lab when he got the atom splitter to work.Theodore Ehrenborg (talk) 22:25, 3 September 2020 (UTC)