In the 1930s, two researchers at Cambridge University needed something reliable for their experiment. John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton were attempting what many thought impossible: splitting the atom. The material they chose came from Manchester, developed by a British engineer named Cecil Reginald Burch just years earlier. They succeeded. The Nobel Prize in Physics followed in 1951. That same material—Apiezon, manufactured in Manchester since 1…
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