What British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 and has works housed at the Churchill Archives Centre?
John Cockcroft Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
Basil Briggs Basil Hugh Briggs (1923 – 8 February 1994) was an English/Australian physicist, Reader in physics at the University of Adelaide, winner of the Harrie Massey Medal and Prize for outstanding contribution to physics in Australia in 1992.