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Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex
In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...
Yahoo News Australia12d
Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex
Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...
BBC12d
Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex
When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on ...
The Washington Post24d
Trump claimed the United States split the atom. New Zealand begs to differ.
who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be credited with splitting the atom. Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist ...
Physics World17d
When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on the development of quantum theory
Bohr entered the story in 1912 when, working in the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford in Manchester, he devised a quantum theory of the atom. In Bohr’s picture, the electrons encircling the atomic ...
ZME Science23d
Did America really split the atom? New Zealand and the UK would like to have a word
President Trump and physicist Ernest Rutherford. Credit: YouTube/Wikimedia Commons. When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ...