Cavendish Laboratory : Rutherford and Chadwick's nuclear disintegation chamber
Cavendish Laboratory
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Rutherford published his discovery papers of the disintegration of nuclei in 1919 with an instrument build in Manchester. The instrument shown here was built by Rutherford and Chadwick in 1921 to refine measurements of the nuclear disintegration of different atomic nuclei (Rutherford and Chadwick, 'The artificial disintegration of light elements', Phil. Mag.(6), 42, 809-825, 1921 )</p>