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

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 ...

The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil ... "There are various different developments which are ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

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

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 ...