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 ...

Let’s take a short break and look back into the history of “atom smashers” and the scientific progress they brought along. Proton accelerator used by Walton & Cockroft to split the atom.

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished.

In 1917, Ernest Rutherford changed the world when he split the atom at The University of Manchester - a breakthrough which resulted in the development of nuclear power, as well as cancer-fighting ...

Ernest Rutherford split the atom here on campus 100 years ago this year. His well-documented discovery marked the birth of nuclear physics, kickstarted the 20th century and changed the world. Not bad ...

Fermi's task, however, was to create a controlled nuclear reaction; that is, to split the atom without creating a deadly explosion. Theoretically, it was possible. During fission, a fast-moving ...

To help television audiences understand the story we were attempting to tell in Britain’s Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield, we needed to recreate Otto Hahn’s famous atom-splitting nuclear ...

The atom is neutral as it has two positive protons ... Nuclear fission close nuclear fissionThe splitting of a large nucleus to produce two smaller ones. Two or three neutrons are also released ...

These spin-born differences in the energy level of an atom are known as hyperfine splitting. While it's commonplace for many scientists to collaborate on nuclear physics experiments at the U.S ...