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 ...

Rutherford’s discovery is now often described as ‘splitting the atom’ in popular accounts, but this should not be confused with the process of nuclear fission discovered later in the 1930s. Between ...

With this experiment, he was the first ... in creating chemical weapons in World War I. Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission. "All science is either physics or stamp ...

we needed to recreate Otto Hahn’s famous atom-splitting nuclear fission experiment from 1938. As we researched the complexities of performing the experiment, we were struck by a sobering thought ...

Chadwick used a version of Rutherford's experiment, using a sheet of beryllium and a paraffin block instead of gold foil. He was able to prove that a proton-sized neutral particle - now known as ...