The one million-volt accelerating equipment of the cavendish laboratory, cambridge

ABSTRACT THE technical development of nuclear physics since 1930 has been so rapid that it has been somewhat unusual for a high-voltage transmutation equipment to continue in useful service

over a period of ten years. The one million-volt apparatus of the Cavendish Laboratory, however, this year reaches its tenth anniversary, and this article has been written to give an account

of the performance of the apparatus throughout this period. Particular interest is attached to this performance, because the one million-volt generator was the first completely engineered

equipment bought by the Laboratory for research in nuclear physics; its use for this purpose was also the first application of a Philips high-tension generator to the acceleration of

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