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

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 ...

Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for splitting the atom. Trump made a claim Monday that an American split ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

Credited with splitting the nucleus of an atom during experiments at the U.K.'s Manchester University in 1917, Rutherford was "the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding ...

He was the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding nitrogen nuclei with alpha particles." The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what ...