M0015316: Experiments by Blackett in a Wilson Cloud Chamber

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Reproduction of two photographs showing an alpha particle strike a helium nucleus and they part at right angles, and an alpha particle enter nitrogen which ejects proton and becomes nitrogen. Published in Eve, A. S.: <i>Rutherford : being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O. M</i>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1939.

M0015316: Experiments by Blackett in a Wilson Cloud Chamber

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