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Definition of Cockcroft
1. Noun. British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockcroft
Literary usage of Cockcroft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tank in Action by Douglas Gordon Browne (1920)
"CHAPTER X. OPERATION AND THE Cockcroft. I. THE result of the first day's fighting
at Ypres was on the whole satisfactory. The left of the attack had been ..."
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