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Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...

Start here Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known ... a nuclear reaction in 1917 while he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Recommended Videos The achievement ...