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| Picture No | 11937141 |
| Date | 1932 |
| Description | Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D Cockcroft |
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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 T S 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.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph from The Illustrated London News - 11th June 1932 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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