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

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

Among those recruited by Oppenheimer to join the team was Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. It has been claimed he was first to split the atom during experiments in Rome in 1934, when he broke a ...

Trump made a claim Monday that an American split the first atom, which was immediately disputed ... Smith extended an invitation to the person who will assume the role. “I will be inviting ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

This is despite the fact New Zealander Ernest Rutherford was the first person to initiate an artificial nuclear reaction when he “split the atom” in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester ...

Big scientific discoveries tend to attract myths which supposes their creation to have occurred "at one moment by one person", but ... record on who split the atom first accurate".

This is despite the fact New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, who was born in Brightwater near Nelson, was the first person to initiate an artificial nuclear reaction when he “split the atom” in ...