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Cockcroft and Walton Experiment (view source)
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An experiment by Cockcroft and Walton is heralded by some as proving ''[[E=mc2|E=mc<sup>2</sup>]]'', despite the utter lack of any logical justification for that science fiction formula.
An experiment by Cockcroft and Walton is heralded by most physicists as demonstrating that ''[[E=mc2|E=mc<sup>2</sup>]]''.
In 1951, the [[Nobel Prize]] committee honored this experiment, but not for proving that ''[[E=mc2|E=mc<sup>2</sup>]]''.<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/</ref>
In 1951, the [[Nobel Prize]] committee honored Cockcroft and Walton "''for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles''"<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/</ref>
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