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Photograph : The artificial transmutation of a nitrogen atom

Model of a cobalt-60 source

1985

Chadwick's Cigarette Box containing Metal Foils and Paraffin Wax, 1932.

1932

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Eight photographs showing the July 1945 New Mexico atomic bomb explosion test

1945-1947

Three specimens

Specimen of pitchblende. Also

Photograph, showing 63 million volt positron passing through a 6 mm lead plate

CERN Bicycle

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

Model Particle Accelerator and Key

1938-1951

Aston's first mass spectrograph, c. 1919.

1918-1925

Model of hydrogen atom, c 1911

1911-1926

Specimen of sand melted by the explosion of the first test atomic bomb, New Mexico, July 1945

1945

Collection of metal foils and archives to do with work on gaseous diffusion of uranium isotopes

1941-1947

Diagram of Robert Andrews Millikan's method of measuring the charge on the electron

1945-1948

Black and white stereoscopic pair of photographic prints, giving evidence for the detailed conservation of energy in the emission and absorption of X-rays

1930-1937

Photograph of the first two models of cyclotron bu

1930

Black and white photographic print showing model of cyclotron built by Ernest Orlando Lawrence and C.J. Cooksey

1936

Black and white photographic print showing model of cyclotron vacuum chamber almost in place between the poles of the electro-magnet

1936

Photographic print showing Cockcroft and Walton's apparatus at Cambridge in 1932

1932

Production of a positive electron by absorption of the radiations from berylium bombarded by alpha-rays from polonium

1927-1937

Stereoscopic pair of cloud-track photographs showing the passage of an X-ray beam through a copper target

1937-1948

Black and white photographic print, stereoscopic pair of cloud-track photographs showing tracks of electrons

1937-1948

Black and white photographic print showing original cyclotron built by Ernest Orlando Lawrence and Milton Stanley Livingston

1931

Black and white photographic print, showing record of individual alpha-rays

1937-1947

Photographic print, showing Dr. J.D. Cockcroft with his apparatus at Cambridge

1932

Black and white photographic print showing a disintegration produced in a lead plate by cosmic rays

1935-1937

Black and white photographic print mounted on card

1930-1937

Two photographs (pair) showing the emission of slo

1930-1937

Print mounted on card, showing the emission of beta-rays from radio silicon, together with a few positrons from radio-nitrogen, present as an impurity

1930-1937

Black and white photographic print mounted on card

1930-1937

Black and white photographic print

1933-1937

Black and white photographic print

1933-1937

Black and white photographic print mounted on card

1930-1937

Print, showing the showing the collision of a fast electron with a nitrogen nucleus, the electron being deflected through 67 degrees

1930-1937

Black and white photographic print

1931-1937

Black and white photographic print showing a cosmic ray negative electron of 1300 million volts energy

1935-1937

Seven guide needles for iridium - 192 pins

1981

Black and white photographic print

1930-1937

Early stereoscopic pair of cloud-track photographs, (1913-1914), illustrating electrons ejected by a narrow beam of X-rays

1913-1937

Black and white stereoscopic photographic prints mounted on card

1930-1937

Pair of photographic stereoscopic photographic prints, showing passage of an X-ray beam through a copper target

1930-1937

Part of Compact Disc player

1997

Single-electron detecting chip, 1997

1992-1997

Diagram showing the variation of frequency and wavelength of characteristic X-rays from various elements

1950

Photograph showing the disintegration of lithium by bombardment with protons

1937

Photograph showing disintegration of boron into 3

1937

Photographic print, showing the formation of a new isotope of helium by bombarding heavy hydrogen with deuterons

1937

Collision of an alpha-ray with a hydrogen atom

1937