In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it first is almost as complex as the science involved. After all, as particle ...

Regardless of who was first to split the atom, the work of Rutherford, Walton, Cockcroft, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Geiger, Marsden and a host of other scientific pioneers paved the way for the nuclear ...

(It was Ernest Rutherford who introduced Oppenheimer to Bohr.) One of Oppenheimer's biographers wrote that Cambridge officials learned of the incident, and Oppenheimer's father convinced them not ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous ... Harvard in 1925 and studying at Cambridge University under Ernest Rutherford. In 1929 he returned to the United States and positions ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

Among those recruited by Oppenheimer to join the team was Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. It has been claimed he was first to split the atom during experiments in Rome in 1934, when he broke a nucleus ...