Ernest Rutherford was the New-Zealand physicist who "split the atom". Please see the related links for details.
Albert Einstein did not split the atom. He did work that predicted what would happen when an atom was split, among many other things.
Ernest Rutherford is the physicist who is known as the founder of or father of nuclear science. He not only developed the concept of radioactive half-life, he is noted for being the first to split the atom, and the first to discover the proton.
It was Albert Einstien.
jhon franklin i think
An atom. An atom can be split into smaller pieces, but if you do that, you no longer have the same element.
Rutherford. Discovered small charged nucleus of atom. Split the atom.
Robert Julius Oppenheimer is credited with being the Father of the Atom bomb, but he was American.
British Physicist Ernest Rutherford is considered the 'father of nuclear physics' and is credited with splitting the first atom in 1917. He pioneered the Rutherford model of the atom and theorized that the charge of an atom is concentrated into a nucleus. He was able to split the atom in a nuclear reaction between alpha and nitrogen particles which led to the discovery of the proton.
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Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann and Lise Meitner in 1939; I consider that the expression father of the atomic bomb is not adequate.
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WHEN WE SPLIT AN ATOM IT EXPLODES because the become unstable.
Albert Einstein did not split the atom. He did work that predicted what would happen when an atom was split, among many other things.
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In 1932 john cockcroft and Ernst waltin split the atom.