• Question: Has Anyone Ever Split The Atom?

    Asked by Ted to Carsten on 8 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Carsten Welsch

      Carsten Welsch answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      Yes, Ernest Rutherford was the first to split the nucleus. He did this just 20 miles from here in 1917 at Manchester University by studying a reaction between alpha particles and nitrogen.

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