Some of his protégés are Edward Victor Appleton, James Chadwick, C. F. Powell, Ernest Walton, Patrick Blackett, Niels Bohr, John Cockcroft, Otto Hahn, Pyotr Kapitsa and Frederick Soddy.

Named for Ernest Walton, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for splitting the atom, the centre’s expertise spans communications networks and mobile, IoT, machine learning and AI, augmented and virtual ...

Donald Trump vexed New Zealanders on the first day of his presidency after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir Ernest Rutherford from Nelson in New Zealand.

Smith expressed his surprise at Trump's claim, stating, "I was a bit surprised by new president Donald Trump in his inauguration speech about US greatness claiming today Americans split the atom ...

Briton John Cockcroft and Irishman Ernest Walton performed the first controlled experiment to split an atomic nucleus into two in 1932. The pair was awarded a Nobel prize in 1951.

In 1932, British and Irish scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under Rutherford's leadership, successfully split the atom at at the University of Cambridge.

Among other false and misleading claims in US President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts by New Zealanders, ...

"John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton developed a device, an accelerator, to generate more penetrating radiation," the Nobel Prize website explains. "Using a strong electric field, protons were ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant mind of Ernest Rutherford, the true father of nuclear physics.

New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a ...

That's THE ONE THING WE DID," Uffindell wrote on social media. Ernest Rutherford is seen broadcasting during a home visit to New Zealand in 1926. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images ...