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. The Institute is located in a purpose-built building on the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus, and in centres in each of the participating universities. The Institute's aim is to provide the intellectual focus, educational infrastructure, and the essential scientific and technological facilities for Accelerator Science and Technology research and development, which will enable UK scientists and engineers to take a major role in accelerator design, construction, and operation for the foreseeable future. The Institute is named after the Nobel prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft FRS. The present director of the Cockcroft Institute is Peter Ratoff, who replaced the previous directors Swapan Chattopadhyay and

John Dainton John Bourke Dainton FRS is a British physicist, and Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics, at University of Liverpool. Dainton was awarded the Max Born Prize in 1999. His father was Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton. He was founding director o ...

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External links

The Cockcroft Institute website

The Cockcroft Institute at Sci-Tech Daresbury
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