Particle+Accelerators

= Particle Accelerators = By: Christopher Gaylord ===Though you may not know this, but particle accelerators are all around you. They're at your school, they're at your job (depending on where you work), and even in your own home. This website is even being presented to you by a particle accelerator. A particle accelerator is an object that charges particles to accelerate their energy. Basically, they are the cathode ray tubes of any television or computer monitor, etc. They are used all around the world!===



Ernest O. Lawrence- Invented the first type of particle accelerator: the cyclotron in 1929 (howstuffworks)
===John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton - English scientists who worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England. Built a "voltage multiplier that used an intricate stack of capacitors connected by rectifying diodes as switches" (Aip).===

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