In what decade were Walton's groundbreaking experiments conducted?
1920s
1940s
1950s
1930s
Answer
In the 1930s, Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft conducted groundbreaking experiments at the Cavendish Laboratory in England. They successfully accelerated protons to high energies using a high-voltage particle accelerator, known as the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, and bombarded lithium atoms with these accelerated protons.
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