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John Douglas Cockcroft

United Kingdom

John Douglas Cockcroft was a British physicist and recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He was a member of the Tizard Mission to the United States in the autumn of 1940.

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Milton C. Sprouse

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Charles A. Thomas

Dayton, OH

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