Cockcroft

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈkɒkˌkrɒft/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(kok′krôft, -kroft)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Cock•croft  (kok′krôft, -kroft),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical Sir John Douglas, 1897–1967, English physicist: Nobel prize 1951.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Cockcroft / ˈkɒkˌkrɒft/
  1. Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951
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