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

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation spread across the globe. The statement, made to bolster the nation’s ...

The atom comment split opinions, one might say ... 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 ...

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 ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.

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 added that he would invite the incoming U.S. ambassador to visit the Rutherford memorial in Nelson, population 50,000, "so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate." ...

Later, he and his team conducted experiments in Manchester between 1914 and 1919, which have been described as being the first to "split the atom". He blasted beams of radioactive particles into ...