Trump just claimed America split the atom. That's THE ONE THING WE DID ... physics," Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 for earlier work on radioactivity.

When two hydrogen atoms get close enough, the electron from each atom feels an attraction from the proton in the other atom's nucleus. This attraction pulls the atoms together. The electrons end up ...

Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, built on prior research but did not perform the initial splitting of the atom. Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, lecturing in New ...

They stuck with the age-old belief that the atom is indivisible and unchangeable ... Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was slightly put out, since he was a physicist ...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have synthesized a Bi5⁻ ring, a molecule with five bismuth atoms, ...

However, this too is a little more complicated, as the uranium atom was first split in 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in December 1938, in Germany. It seems that some New ...