Regardless of who was first to split the atom, the work of Rutherford, Walton, Cockcroft, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Geiger, Marsden and a host of other scientific pioneers paved the way for the nuclear ...

In reality, splitting the atom was the result of international collaboration, and scientific advancement from around the world. It's possible Trump may have been confused with work that took place ...

Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, lecturing in New Zealand, 1926. Rutherford’s research in the United Kingdom in 1917 made him the first to split the atom.

He added that he would invite the incoming U.S. ambassador to visit the Rutherford memorial in Nelson, population 50,000, "so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate." ...

It was here that he split the atom, and didn't notice. In March 1934, following the discovery of artificial radioactivity by Irène Curie and Frédéric Joliot, ...

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 ...