In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

He realized that Rutherford's model wasn't quite right ... energy and eventually spiral down into the nucleus, making the atom collapse. Or the electrons could be knocked out of position if ...

who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be credited with splitting the atom. Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

"Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester in ...

In his Inaugural Address, Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, an achievement credited by many to pioneering physicist Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand.

Dr Sumner said the reaction Rutherford identified might more accurately be described as the process of an atom "absorbing a bit of material and becoming something heavier". At the time ...

In 1917, while at Victoria University of Manchester in England, Rutherford was the first to intentionally split the atom through a nuclear reaction. His discoveries not only defined the modern ...

He realized that Rutherford's model wasn't quite right ... energy and eventually spiral down into the nucleus, making the atom collapse. Or the electrons could be knocked out of position if ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...