Their famous 1932 experiment used a high-voltage accelerator to speed up a beam of protons directed at a plate of lithium.
Their famous 1932 experiment used a high-voltage accelerator to speed up a beam of protons directed at a plate of lithium. On contact, the protons caused some lithium nuclei to break up into alpha particles, marking the first splitting of the atom by artificial means. FTP, identify either one of the two English scientists who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
Their famous 1932 experiment used a high-voltage accelerator to speed up a beam of protons directed at a plate of lithium.
Sir John Douglas {Cockcroft} or Ernest {Walton}