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

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation of physicists. But his atomic model remains the best known work of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his Inaugural Address, Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, an achievement credited by many to pioneering physicist Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand.

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.

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 ...