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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump claimed an American first split the atom. A New Zealand mayor immediately disputed.

The dissenting parties, at the very least, seem to agree on one thing: Whoever first split the atom, it was not an American. Rebecca Priestley, professor of science in society at Victoria ...

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 ...

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