- Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
…n **1932** when John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton focused a proton beam onto lithium and bust its nucleus. The era of **nuclear physics** was born. It was the first nuclear transmutation of one element (lithium) to another (helium) under full hum…
…]], Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Walton 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 co…
…(E = mc2). Cockcroft and Walton received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951. == Birth of a Bomb == The discovery of **Nuclear Fission** led to many types of experiments, not least, the **Atom Bomb**. {{Tag ids="Nuclear atom power volts generator… - Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
…e|Jet]]**, **[[Radar]]**, **VT fuse**, the **Magnetron** (that went on to power microwave ovens) and [[Split_the_Atom| Nuclear Fission]] to allow Oppenheimer to develop the **Atomic Bomb** technology to the annoyance of the patent holders. P.S. …
- MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
…que. {{Image url="MRI-Scanner.jpg" class="left" title="Modern MRI Scanner" width="" }} Sir Peter’s early work was in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), then being used to study the chemical structure of substances. He joined the Department of Ph…
… scientist Raymond Damadian built a partial body MRI scanner in 1977, which he called the ‘Indomitable’. {{Tag ids="nuclear magnet scan radio image body"}} …