The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, actually achieved; splitting apart a nucleus by bombarding ...

Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday was peppered with many falsehoods — but the new president’s claim that the United States ... John Cockroft and Ernest Walton, who would go on ...

While listing the United States’ accomplishments ... “achievement belongs to Britain” and pointing to the work of physicists John Cockroft and Ernest Walton, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize ...