He may have split the world when he discovered how to split the atom. Name that physicist.
Answer Ernest Rutherford
This great experimentalist and father of nuclear physics was the first to split the atom. Ernest Rutherford used alpha particles from radioactive matter to bombard nitrogen, resulting in a proton of higher energy than the alpha dog. His discovery would lead to further exploration of the atom, including the development of the atom bomb. Explosive.
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