1. Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57

   …room at Ernest Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Walton used spare parts along with some wood and nails to build the world's first nuclear-particle acceler…
   … Manchester more than ten years before. He wanted more control over the particles used to penetrate nuclei. He directed Cockcroft and Walton to build a high voltage machine he called for "a million volts in a soapbox". == Cockcroft-Walton Generator…
   … == The Cockcroft-Walton generator, a system of capacitors and thermionic rectifiers produced voltages around 600,000 volts. It wasn't a …
   …million volts, but it proved sufficient. The splitting of the atom was now a reality. /* event_date="14 April 1932" Cockcroft & Walton split the atom */ On the 14th April 1932 Cockcroft and Walton measured the total kinetic energy of the helium…

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