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History Trivia

What did physicist Ernest Rutherford discover how to do in 1919?

on Dec 3, 2024

Published in History Trivia

Break The Sound Barrier
Split The Atom
Calculate The Speed Of Light
Monitor Brain Waves

Split The Atom. Ernest Rutherford was the first scientist to deliberately transform atoms of one element into another.

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