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

Briton John Cockcroft and Irishman Ernest Walton performed the first controlled ... Sir Ernest is considered the “father of nuclear physics” for performing the first transmutation of nitrogen ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many ... John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British ...

FILE - British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left, and Dr. F.D. Cockroft ... to a pioneering scientist revered in his homeland. Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear ...