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

As part of an experiment with x-rays in 1909, Rutherford was shooting a beam of alpha particles (or alpha rays, emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... set up a center to study radiation. In 1909 he began experiments that were to change the face of physics. He discovered the atomic nucleus ...

Between 1914 and 1919 Rutherford conducted many experiments at the University by bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles. These experiments indicated that penetrating radiation was emitted that ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

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 ...

University of Manchester Rutherford (right) juggled his experiments in Manchester with submarine detection research and other war work Dr Cliff said the scientists found "what we now call a proton ...