Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was born at Dungarvan, County Waterford on the south coast of Ireland on October 6th, 1903. He was the son of a Methodist Minister.
In 1915 he was sent as a boarder to the Methodist College, Belfast, where he excelled in mathematics and science, and in 1922 he entered Trinity College.
Walton married Freda Wilson, daughter of a Methodist in 1934. They had two sons and two daughters, Alan, Marian, Philip, and Jean.
In 1927, he went to Cambridge University to work in the Cavendish Laboratory under Lord Rutherford managements. After, he continued in Cambrige as a professor.
Walton first researches, were about the theorical and experimental of the hydrodynamics but he also worked on methods for producing fast particles, working in an accelerator and on what was later was known as betatron. He did this with work on the direct method of producing fast particles by the use of high voltages. this work being done jointly with J.D. Cokcroft, and they won the Nobel price because of it.
He had worked in many projects with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Dublin Society, Wesley College, Dublin, and many government and church committees.
Altough he was retired, he continued working in his association with the Physics Department at Trinity. He presented his nobel medal to the Trinity college, making it more famouse. He died of illness in Belfast on June 25, 1995, aged 91 and is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, south County Dublin. He was very admired by his country, and specially in the science.
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