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

Rutherford made a series ... first deliberate attempts to "split" a nucleus. Dr Cliff said under his leadership in 1932, students John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton built one of the world's first ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of ... Atoms are the building blocks of all matter and are made up of a nucleus and a number of orbiting electrons. Originally proposed in Ancient ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, actually achieved; splitting apart a nucleus by bombarding ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the sub-atomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.