Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft and Ernest Ts Walton developed the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator to artificially speed up atomic particles to high energies. Fast-moving protons made from hydrogen were directed towards a lithium target in a vacuum, and the results of this splitting of atoms observed

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