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Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory
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- pg07_Rutherford
- Title
- Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory
- Description
- The study of nuclear transformations began in 1919 with Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the reaction N14(a,p)O17, in which a nitrogen nucleus absorbs an alpha particle and ejects a proton to become an oxygen nucleus. Rutherford's group at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge discovered that naturally occurring alpha particles induce more transformations the faster they travel. A machine was needed to increase the number and speed of the particles. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.) Photo courtesy of the American Institute of Physics
- Citation Caption
- LBL News, Vol.6, No.3, Fall 1981 | Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory.
- People
- Ernest Rutherford
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