Cockcroft and Walton split the atom
1932 · Event
In Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton shatter lithium nuclei with accelerated protons — the first nuclear disintegration by artificial means, confirming E=mc².
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