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

who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be credited with splitting the atom. Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist ...

J.J. Thomson — a professor of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge, who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be credited ...

1. Choose the correct alternative from the clues given at the end of each statement: (a) The size of the atom in Thomson’s model is ..... the atomic size in Rutherford’s model.

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

TULELA: Anyway, JJ Thomson’s plum pudding model of the atom didn’t last very long because only about a decade later, along comes Ernest Rutherford who tested Thomson’s theory and proved that ...

UNIT 18: Atoms and Nuclei Alpha-particle scattering experiment, Rutherford's model of atom, Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses ...

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.

The same apparatus used to generate an X-ray photoelectron spectrum was also used to study β-ray energies (e.g., (Rutherford ... on the charge on the atom led to models being developed in the 1970s ...

“Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester ...