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Cavendish Laboratory : The Cockcroft-Walton accelerator (1932)

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Photograph of the 1932 Cockcroft-Walton accelerator with (left to right) the voltage multiplying rectifier stack, battery (with a spark discharge), battery, accelerating tube and observation box, stack with battery and transformer at top (see P63). Cockcroft and Walton were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.</p>


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