The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton ... two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together.

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two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together ... was later confirmed in an experiment by Rutherford's colleagues. "John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton developed a device, an accelerator ...

Rutherford's achievement ... such as John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who successfully split lithium atoms using artificially accelerated protons in 1932.

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Under the mentorship of Rutherford, British physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton built a particle accelerator capable of smashing protons into lithium atoms. What they observed was astonishing.

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