No he did not invent the atom.
He merely discovered it.
Ruthford Ernest had past away on October 19,1937 his body was found laying on a table
1925
Ernest Rutherford was a chemist, physicist and now is known as the 'Father of Nuclear Physics'...
The nucleus was discovered in 1899.
he discovered how the body parts work
Ernest Rutherford discovered that the nucleus of an atom has a positive charge and discovered the evidence to show the electron field surrounding the nucleus in an atom.
Ruthford
By showing that elements were not unchanging.The nature of radioactivity and the structure of the atom was still being worked out. He showed that splitting an atom to produce two new elements was a possibility. This led to the development of atomic power and the fission bomb for good or ill.
Actually Ruthford discovered the Nucleus
no i belive he did the gold foil experiment which proved the existence of the nucleus, he fired protons at an atom and 1 in every 30,000 bounced back.
Ernest Rutherford was the man you are thinking of. He was the first person to 'split the atom'.
in 2012