Cockcroft Collection

Dr J D Cockcroft listening for atomic disintegration
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus

Peter Mandelson and others at a press conference
Peter Mandelson (b 1953), Labour politician, David Cockcroft, Tom Shebbeare, Peter Bennett and Sue Ferguson sitting at a desk during a British Youth Council press conference, London

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, The Alien Room
THE ALIEN ROOM - Climbers find a spaceship on Everest - they enter it, one of them presses a button and whoosh ! off to Outer Space !

Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D Cockcroft
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus

Dr Ernest Walton with Cockcroft-Walton apparatus
Dr Ernest Ts Walton in the cabinet (marked E) into which the high-velocity protons emerge and strike the target of lithium

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory
Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft

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