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The dramatic development of Robert van de Graaff which was first reported in 1931 received immediate and wide recognition. His machine was very simple in principle and in its early form it was very simple to construct. It appeared at a time when a pressing need was being felt for a convenient machine to accelerate charged particles, and its characteristics appeared to be ideally suited to this purpose.
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Herb, R.G. (1959). Van de Graaff Generators. In: Creutz, E. (eds) Nuclear Instrumentation I / Instrumentelle Hilfsmittel der Kernphysik I. Encyclopedia of Physics / Handbuch der Physik, vol 8 / 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45926-9_2
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