In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...
In his Inaugural Address, Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, an achievement credited by many to pioneering physicist Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand.
Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for splitting the atom. Trump made a claim Monday that an American split ...
to visit the Lord Rutherford Memorial in Brightwater "so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate". Atoms split naturally, but in 1919, Rutherford oversaw the first ...
Later, he and his team conducted experiments in Manchester between 1914 and 1919, which have been described as being the first to "split the atom". He blasted beams of radioactive particles into ...