The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed by Rutherford. It is not attributed ...

In 1932, under Rutherford’s leadership at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, Britain’s Cockcroft and Walton, from Ireland, split the atomic nucleus using a “handmade array of transformers ...

Dr Cliff said under his leadership in 1932, students John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton built one of the world's first particle accelerators, a powerful machine that "literally cleaved the atom in ...