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This '''experiment''' by [[John Cockcroft]] and [[Ernest Walton]] is heralded by most physicists  as demonstrating that ''[[E=mc2|E=mc²]]''.<ref>[http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/31864 Mike Poole ''Cockcroft's subatomic legacy: splitting the atom''], Cern Courier, Nov 20, 2007</ref>

This '''experiment''' by [[John Cockcroft]] and [[Ernest Walton]] is heralded by most physicists  as demonstrating that ''[[E=mc2|E=mc²]]''.<ref>[http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/31864 Mike Poole ''Cockcroft's subatomic legacy: splitting the atom''], Cern Courier, Nov 20, 2007</ref>

Conducted in April 1932 at the [[University of Cambridge]], England, physicists Cockroft and Walton successfully split [[lithium]] atom [[nucleus|nuclei]] by colliding them with artificially accelerated protons. This experiment is general hailed as being the first [[transmutation]] of an element using artificially accelerated particles, for which they were honored with the [[Nobel Prize]] in 1951<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/</ref>.  

Conducted in April 1932 at the [[University of Cambridge]], England, physicists Cockroft and Walton successfully split [[lithium]] atom [[nucleus|nuclei]] by colliding them with artificially accelerated protons. This experiment is general hailed as being the first [[transmutation]] of an element using artificially accelerated particles, for which they were honored with the [[Nobel Prize]] in 1951<ref>[http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/ ''The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951''], Nobelprize.org, 23 Jan 2013</ref>.  

Critics maintain that such verification is impossible due to the utter lack of any logical justification for that science fiction formula.

Critics maintain that such verification is impossible due to the utter lack of any logical justification for that science fiction formula.