Cockcroft–Walton generator
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cockcroft-walton-generator-162-2745570
title:
Cockcroft–Walton generator
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The Cockcroft–Walton (CW) generator, or multiplier, is an electric circuit that generates a high DC voltage from a low-voltage AC. It was named after the British and Irish physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, who in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator, performing the first artificial nuclear disintegration in history. They used this voltage multiplier cascade for most of their research, which in 1951 won them the Nobel Prize in Physics
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description:
Electric circuit that generates high DC voltage from low-voltage AC or pulsing DC input
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockcroft%E2%80%93Walton_generator
date created:
2005-08-11T11:50:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T04:58:01Z
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