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| Picture No | 10469582 |
| Date | 1932 |
| Description | Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory |
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Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft and Ernest T S 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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| Source | Photograph in the Illustrated London News, 11th June 1932 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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