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 ...

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

British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left ... he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The achievement ...