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

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting ... have fixed levels of energy within each type of atom. Bohr's 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...

In 1917, while at Victoria University of Manchester in England, Rutherford was the first to intentionally split the atom through a nuclear reaction. His discoveries not only defined the modern ...

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 ...

“Rutherford had ‘split the atom,’ the news headlines proclaimed, and the science of nuclear physics — the manipulation of the atomic nucleus — was launched, ” Priestley said. In ...

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.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

One achievement – splitting the atom – was especially ... into two smaller atoms. In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen ...

the moniker the "father of nuclear physics". Dr Sumner said the reaction Rutherford identified might more accurately be described as the process of an atom "absorbing a bit of material and ...

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.