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Photograph : The artificial transmutation of a nitrogen atom

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

1932

Model of a cobalt-60 source

1985

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Three specimens

Aston's first mass spectrograph, c. 1919.

1918-1925

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

Model of hydrogen atom, c 1911

1911-1926

Two photographs, taken with a deep expansion chamber, showing cosmic-ray tracks in oxygen

Two photographs, beta-ray from thorium C and alpha-ray from thorium C1

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

CERN Bicycle

Specimen of pitchblende. Also

Back wound betatron magnet by British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., 1947

1947

Model of sodium atom, c 1911

1911-1926

Animated model of helium atom

1952

Model of lithium atom, showing Bohr orbits

Electromechanical counter, 1930-4

1930-1934

External target for colliding with protons from the Nimrod particle accelerator, 1964-1978.

1964-1978

Replica of an electroscope (c. 1900) used by Ernest Rutherford for his experiments on alpha rays

1964-1974

Fox-Smith prism component

1962-1972

laser

1973

Valve amplifier used by Frédéric Joliet and Irène Joliot-Curie

1930-1934

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1955-1960

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1955-1960

Solartron oscilloscope model CD568

1955-1961

Radioimmunoassay kit for anti-DNA

1981

Metal tube used to transport a sample of the Turin Shroud for radio carbon dating, 1988

1988

Target wheel used in Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford, 1991.

1991

Irradiation rig for the production of phosphorus 32, c. 1980.

1980

Cloud chamber or 'ray-track apparatus'

1955

Direct Current Amplifier for Ionisation Chamber

1955-1969

Model of Chadwick's apparatus used to discover the neutron

1960-1970

Model of splitting of uranium-235 atom

1960-1970

Scintillation counter

1955-1965

Copper foil with etched perforations at 20

1942-1943

Crookes radiometer tube by Griffin and George, Wem

1969

Ionisation chamber (Radioisotope dose calibrator) with three plastic sample holders

1960-1969

One lead "brick" for building screen walls round r

1960-1965

Replica of sensitive alpha-particle electroscope

Replica; Rutherford's apparatus for investigating alpha particles

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge

1945-1955

5kV Lead with black insulation

1997

White T-shirt, blue printed design incorporating radioactive symbol and the word 'Non'

1995

Wound probe containing 2 small detectors

circa 1990

Experimental secondary emission tube

1945-48

Demountable synchotron gun

1950-78

Cathode ray tube gun

1960-78

Noise diode

1946

X-ray tube used in medical applications

1953-78