Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D Cockcroft
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus, which appears to break up into two helium nuclei. Physicists Cockcroft and E Ts Walton developed the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator to artificially accelerate atomic particles to high energies, to enable them to observe the results of splitting the atom. At the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
Picture No
11937141
Media ID
46076151
Size
4176px x 3784px
(3.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph from The Illustrated London News - 11th June 1932
Date
1932
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