Word: ulsterman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physics prize was divided between Britain's Sir John D. Cockcroft and Ulsterman E.T.S. Walton. Working as a team at Cambridge, England, they built a high-voltage machine in 1932, seven years before the discovery of uranium fission, which smashed lithium atoms, turning each into two helium nuclei and a powerful jolt of energy. The Cockcroft-Walton reaction is inefficient, but the energy that it produces is genuinely nuclear, released when mass is turned into energy...
Slight, blue-eyed Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, 30, is a pleasantly chatty Ulsterman with an easy English accent. The son of a British army major, he drifted into acting while hanging around the English stage to pick up pointers on writing a play. In Scotland before the war, he was a cofounder, part-time director and actor of the Dundee Repertory Company, where he once played in The Hasty Heart, not as the Scot ("I wouldn't have dared in Scotland") but as the American ("And I wouldn't try that part in America...