This story first appeared in Fermilab Today on November 29, 2010. Fermilab’s iconic Cockcroft-Waltons are on their last mission. In 2012, the elephantine generators will join the cyclotron magnet in ...

Today Fermilab's iconic Cockroft-Walton generators will send out their last beam. The following article ran in Tuesday's issue of Fermilab Today. Fermilab has had many different accelerators in its ...

The world is gearing up for the biggest physics experiment ever and it will take us 'back to the future' according to Professor Carsten P. Welsch of Liverpool University and the Cockcroft Institute.

__1932: __John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton focus a proton beam on lithium and bust its nucleus. The era of accelerator-based experimental nuclear physics is born. Ernest Rutherford, who first ...

There’s something satisfying about creating high voltages. Sure, there are practical uses like neon signs or doing certain experiments, but be honest — you really just want to see some giant arcs ...