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

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 ...

Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday was peppered with many falsehoods — but the new president’s claim that the United States split ... of the atom — was the first person to be ...

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 ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

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".