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This '''experiment''' by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton is championed by [[liberals]] as being confirmation  of [[Albert Einstein]]'s famous formula ''[[E=mc&sup2;]]'',<ref>[http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/31864 Mike Poole ''Cockcroft's subatomic legacy: splitting the atom''], Cern Courier, Nov 20, 2007</ref> even though no such claim was made at the time and experimental error was too large for it confirm the formula.  Moreover, an isolated experiment such as this could not demonstrate the sweeping claim made by the formula.

This '''experiment''' by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton is championed by [[liberals]] as being confirmation  of [[Albert Einstein]]'s famous formula ''[[E=mc&sup2;]]'',<ref>[http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/31864 Mike Poole ''Cockcroft's subatomic legacy: splitting the atom''], Cern Courier, Nov 20, 2007</ref> even though no such claim was made by the experimenters at the time and experimental error was too large for it confirm the formula.  Moreover, an isolated experiment such as this could not demonstrate the sweeping claim made by the formula.

Conducted in April 1932 at the [[University of Cambridge]]'s [[Cavendish Laboratory]] in England,  the 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>

Conducted in April 1932 at the [[University of Cambridge]]'s [[Cavendish Laboratory]] in England,  the 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>