THE MEN WHO SPLIT THE ATOM.-/W left, Dr. E. T. Walton, Lord Rutherford, and Dr. J. D. Cockroft, who recently carried -out valuable .experiments at'the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lord Rutheiford, u,nder whom the experiments were carried out, stated^ that the atomic nucleus had been split by means of a vacuum tube, through which millions of. particles were fired at a speed of 10,000 . kilometres a second, The atom has been split, before, but in these-experiments-greatly incr»ased energies were obtained from atoms ai they broke up. . l
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1932, Page 9
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86THE MEN WHO SPLIT THE ATOM.-/W left, Dr. E. T. Walton, Lord Rutherford, and Dr. J. D. Cockroft, who recently carried -out valuable .experiments at'the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lord Rutheiford, u,nder whom the experiments were carried out, stated^ that the atomic nucleus had been split by means of a vacuum tube, through which millions of. particles were fired at a speed of 10,000 . kilometres a second, The atom has been split, before, but in theseexperiments-greatly incr»ased energies were obtained from atoms ai they broke up. . l Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1932, Page 9
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