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 1911 Ernest Rutherford published his account of the experiments which showed that the atom has a massive electrically charged core. At the time even he was unaware of the importance of his ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited a central ...

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 ...

Rebecca Priestley, professor of science in society at Victoria University of Wellington and author of “Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic ... a model of the atom — was the first person to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...