Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex
In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...
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Trump Says USA Split The Atom. Ernest Rutherford Would Like A Word
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 ...
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Trump Claimed Americans ‘Split the Atom’—New Zealanders Would Like to Have a Word
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 ...
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Trump claims U.S. "split the atom." New Zealand says that's not true.
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 ...
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Trump vexes New Zealanders by claiming one of their proudest historical moments for America
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 ...
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Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex
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 ...