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

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement widely attributed to Ernest ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

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 ...

His work not only earned him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 but also led to the discovery ... the atom when that honour belongs to Nelson's most famous and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford." ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

His discoveries not only defined the modern ... built on prior research but did not perform the initial splitting of the atom. Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Ernest Rutherford (right ... conceding splitting the atom was a "loose term". Big scientific discoveries tend to attract myths which supposes their creation to have occurred "at one moment ...