Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

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 ...

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