Walton, Ernest Syllabification: (Wal·ton, Ernest)Pronunciation: /ˈwôltn/Definition of Walton, Ernest (1903–95), Irish physicist; full name Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton. In 1932 he succeeded, with Sir John Cockcroft, in splitting the atom. Nobel Prize for Physics (1951), shared with Cockcroft. Walton, Ernest in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Walton, Ernest in the British & World English dictionary
