One achievement – splitting the atom – was especially baffling ... captured rare cloud chamber images that revealed the full detail of what was happening. The photographs showed some of ...

It has been claimed he was first to split the atom during experiments in Rome in 1934, when he broke a nucleus into two or more smaller parts. Getty Images Fermi built the first nuclear reactor in ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on ...