In 1932 john cockcroft and Ernst waltin split the atom.
Ernest Rutherford was the man you are thinking of. He was the first person to 'split the atom'.
As a physicist at the University of Manchester, Ernest Rutherford studied alpha particle radiation, among other things.Rutherford is credited with being the first scientist to "split the atom" in 1917 in a nuclear reaction between nitrogen and alpha particles.14N + α → 17O + protonRutherford noticed that when an alpha emitter decayed in the presence of air, there was unidentified radiation that resulted. He investigated this and demonstrated that the alpha emitted when striking nitrogen would produce oxygen and hydrogen.This was the first demonstration of changing one type of nucleus (element) into another through radiation.
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Ernest Rutherford was the man you are thinking of. He was the first person to 'split the atom'.
Ernest Rutherford
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I think he sat down and enjoyed the ride after that.
Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist, is credited with being the first person to split the atom in 1917. This groundbreaking achievement laid the foundation for nuclear physics and the development of nuclear technology.
Hans Bethe was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1967. To read more about this scientist, and to see a photograph of him, see Answers.com via the Related Link.
Albert Einstein did not split the atom; that achievement is attributed to scientists such as Ernest Rutherford and later Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann. Einstein's contributions to atomic physics are primarily theoretical, including his famous equation E=mc^2, which showed the relationship between mass and energy.
No, all he did was write to the president (FDR) that the atom bomb should be developed because there was concern that Germany may do it first.April 1932 John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton (in the UK) split the atom for the first time.
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