- Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
…and Ernest Walton 1932 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[1900s]] |!|{float: right;width:400px}|| ||(x:2){{Image url="CockcroftRutherfordWalton.jpg" class="right" width="" title="Cockcroft Rutherford and Walton" }}|| ||{{Databox who="John Cockcroft" birth_…
…e url="SplitAtom.jpg" class="left" title="Split Atom" width="200" }} == Prototype == Working in a vacant room at Ernest Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Wa…
…lton used spare parts along with some wood and nails to build the world's first nuclear-particle accelerator in 1929. Rutherford had split the atom in Manchester more than ten years before. He wanted more control over the particles used to penetrat… - Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
… develop the **Atomic Bomb** technology to the annoyance of the patent holders. P.S. Oppenheimer had been a student of Rutherford at Cambridge University. >>{{amazon type="book" items="1594161631" }}>> His British Bulldog virtues pulled the countr…