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

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 ...

After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by physicist Ernest Rutherford.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as ... postulating a central nucleus and identifying the proton. Trump's remarks provoked a flurry of online posts by New Zealanders about Rutherford ...

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 ...