Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995). Ernest Walton was born on 6 October 1903 in what is now Ireland. Ernest Walton is remembered as a physicist and university teacher, a citizen of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Positions held included Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy.
Before and after
- 28 June 1903Founding of Deutsches Museum
- from 1 July 1903 to 19 July 1903The first Tour de France starts
- from 20 July 1903 to 1 October 1903Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
- 11 September 1903Birth of Theodor W. Adorno
- 6 October 1903Birth of Ernest Walton
- 31 October 1903Construction of Hampden Park
- 1 November 1903Death of Theodor Mommsen
- 7 November 1903Birth of Konrad Lorenz
- 17 December 1903First flight of Flyer I
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