Cockcroft
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Cockcroft may refer to:
Cockroft may refer to:
- Sir John Douglas CockcroftJohn CockcroftSir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power....
(1897–1967), British nuclear physicist - Colin CockcroftColin CockcroftLieutenant-General Colin Cockcroft SSA SM was a South African military commander. A medical doctor, he joined the South African Army's medical corps in 1947, and he commanded the centralised South African Medical Service, as Surgeon-General, from 1969 to 1977.-References:*Militaria - Official...
(1918–1987), South African military commander - Barry CockcroftBarry CockcroftBarry Cockcroft was a UK television documentary director, writer and producer. He is best known for his documentary Too Long A Winter about the spinster Hannah Hauxwell who lived alone on a remote farm in the Pennines.A researcher at Yorkshire Television at its inception in 1968, he was making...
(1933–2001), British television documentary director - Barry Cockcroft (dentist)Barry Cockcroft (dentist)Barry Michael Cockcroft CBE is the Chief Dental Officer for England.Cockcroft qualified from the Dental School at the University of Birmingham in 1973...
, Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England - George CockcroftGeorge CockcroftGeorge Cockcroft is an author who writes under the pen name Luke Rhinehart.-Biography:George Cockcroft was born in the United States, son of an engineer and a civil servant. He got his BA at Cornell University, and his MA at Columbia University. Subsequently he got a PhD in psychology, also at...
(born 1932), U.S. novelist who published under the name "Luke Rhinehart" - John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 1934), British Conservative politician
- The Cockcroft InstituteCockcroft InstituteThe Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Manchester, the Science and...
, a UK research centre for accelerator physics named after Sir John D. Cockcroft - CockcroftCockcroft (crater)Cockcroft is a lunar crater that is situated on the far side of the Moon from the Earth, so that it has only be observed and photographed from orbit. It lies to the northeast of the larger crater Fitzgerald, and southeast of Evershed....
, a lunar crater named after Sir John D. Cockcroft - William CockcroftWilliam CockcroftWilliam "Bill" Cockcroft DL of Maidstone, United Kingdom is Chief Scout Commissioner of England and Director of the 21st World Scout Jamboree....
Cockroft may refer to:
- Don CockroftDon CockroftDonald Lee Cockroft is a former American football punter and placekicker who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns...
American football player - Lana Coc-KroftLana Coc-KroftLana Coc-Kroft is a New Zealand television and radio personality, and was Miss Universe New Zealand in 1988.Coc-Kroft began her television career appearing in Sale of the Century, and in 1991 on the New Zealand version of Wheel of Fortune as the co-host with Phillip Leishman, later Simon Barnett....
New Zealand television personality - Peter CockroftPeter CockroftPeter Cockroft is a British weather forecaster. Cockroft joined the BBC in 1991 as one of the presenters of the national weather forecasts; in 2002, he became the main weather presenter on BBC London News....
British weather forecaster - Joe CockroftJoe CockroftJoe Cockroft was an English footballer.Cockroft played for Yorkshire Paper Mills, Barnsley Old Boys, Ardsley Athletic, Wombwell, Rotherham United and then Gainsborough Trinity before moving to West Ham United, then of Division Two, in 1933.Signed after a months trial from Gainsborough by Charlie...
English footballer